Alphonse Stengelin (1852–1938) was a French painter, engraver, and lithographer who spent much of his life working outside France. He is remembered mostly for his landscapes.

Biography

He was born in a home that had been designed by the architect

Jacques-Germain Soufflot Jacques-Germain Soufflot (, 22 July 1713 – 29 August 1780) was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism. His most famous work is the Panthéon in Paris, built from 1755 onwards, originally as a church ded ...

, designer of the

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. His parents were

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. His father was a banker, associated with the banking house of Evesque & Cie.''Les Guichets du savoir''
notice biographique réalisée à partir des recherches du pasteur Ernest Christen (1932) et Nicole Lemoine (1985) — cf. bibliographie. Stengelin-Boats

After studying at the

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, he enrolled at the

École des beaux-arts de Lyon École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

and became a student of the school's Director,

Joseph Guichard Joseph Benoît Guichard (14 November 1806, Lyon - 31 May 1880, Lyon) was a French painter and art teacher who worked in a variety of styles. Biography His parents were the owners of a wallpaper shop. Around 1818, he began to study drawing at ...

. He also worked with Augustin Chenu and Florian-Némorin Cabane (1831–1922), both landscape painters. He spent much of his time copying the

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at the

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and was a great admirer of

Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (; ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), mononymously known as Rembrandt was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and Drawing, draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in ...

. He eventually went to Paris and opened a small studio in

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. From 1875 to 1910 he travelled extensively, visiting Germany, Switzerland and Italy. As the years passed, he spent more time in the Netherlands, where he not only painted but also produced engravings of his earlier paintings.

Janine Bailly-Herzberg Janine Bailly-Herzberg (1920–2005) was a French art historian, specialising in 19th-century art. Author Bailly-Herzberg was an author as well. Her book ''Pissarro et Paris'' was published in 1992 by Flammarion. She also co-wrote ''L'eau-forte de ...

, ''Dictionnaire de l'estampe en France 183à-1950'', Arts et métiers graphiques/Flammarion, 1985, pg.309. The small towns of

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and

Katwijk Katwijk () is a coastal municipality and town in the province of South Holland, which is situated in the mid-western part of the Netherlands. The Oude Rijn (Utrecht and South Holland), Oude Rijn ("Old Rhine") river flows through the town and i ...

and the farming country of

Bresse Bresse () is a former French province. It is located in the regions of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté of eastern France. The geographical term ''Bresse'' has two meanings: ''Bresse bourguignonne'' (or ''louhannaise''), whic ...

were among his favorite locations. In 1888, he married his cousin, Coraly Stengelin (1860–1945) and they had four children. A street in Katwijk was named after him in 1907, after which he signed his works as "Stengelin van Katwijk". Until 1914, he divided his time between the Netherlands and a small house in

Écully Écully () is a suburban Communes of France, commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region, central-eastern France. It is a northwestern suburb of Lyon, bordering its 9th arrondissement of Lyon, 9th arron ...

. In 1978, a "Place Alphonse Stengelin" was dedicated there.« Plus de convivialité pour la place Stengelin réhabilitée »
(2010), sur le site officiel de la ville d'Écully, notice biographique d'après Nicole Lemoine (1985). He died in 1938 in Switzerland, where he had gone to live with his brother, Henri. His works may be seen at the

, Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux,

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and the

Musée d'arts de Nantes The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes (French: Musée d'Arts de Nantes), along with 14 other provincial museums, was created, by consular decree on 14 Fructidor in year IX (31 August 1801). Today the museum is one of the largest museums in the region. ...

References

Landschap in Drenthe Rijksmuseum SK-A-2498

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