Henri Emmanuel Blanc-Fontaine (16 January 1819,

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- 20 December 1897,

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) was a French

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. He created

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scenes, portraits, landscapes, and

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Biography

He had originally planned to have a legal career, but followed the advice of his friend, Diodore Rahoult, a rising local artist, and went to Paris, where he was a pupil of

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. In 1843, he also enrolled at the

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. He had his first exhibit at the

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in 1848. Rahoult introduced him to landscape painting in 1853, and that became his favorite subject after 1870. He was also a pupil of

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(whose portrait he painted; now kept in the

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) and

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. The painter,

Eugénie Gruyer-Brielman Eugénie Gruyer-Brielman, born Henriette Eugénie Clet (2 November 1837, Grenoble - 5 December 1921, Sassenage) was a French painter and designer. Biography She was born to Jean Sébastian Clet (1807-1874), a construction contractor, and his ...

, was his sister-in-law, by her relationship to his wife, Julie Amélie, née Gruyer. In 1868, he and Rahoult were commissioned to decorate the new . He was member of the artists' colony in Proveysieux and was associated a while with . His paintings can be seen at the Museum of Grenoble, the Musée dauphinois and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry. His painting ''Souvenir de La Grave'' won an honorable mention at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris, and was noticed by

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Sources

* Nathalie Servonnat-Favier, catalogue of the exhibition ''Peintre(s) à Proveysieux'', Musée de l'Ancien Évêché, Grenoble, 2003 () * ''Dictionnaire des petits Maîtres de la Peinture (1820-1920)'', Pierre Cabanne and Gerald Schurr, Amateur editions, 2003, ()

External links

*
Works by Henri Blanc-Fontaine, on ''Culture.gouv.fr''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blanc-Fontaine, Henri 1819 births 1897 deaths Artists from Grenoble Painters from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 19th-century French painters French male painters French genre painters 19th-century French male artists