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Hippolyte Petitjean (11 September 1854, Mâcon – 18 September 1929, Paris) was a French
''Musées de Bourgogne''. Retrieved 26 April 2012. After Seurat encouraged him to join the Neo-Impressionists, he was also influenced by Paul Signac and
''FADA''. Retrieve 26 April 2012. Petitjean exhibited at the ''Salon des Indépendants'' in 1891 and thereafter at ''Le Brac de Bouteville'' together with the symbolists and impressionists. He also exhibited in Brussels in 1893 and 1898, Berlin in 1898, Weimar in 1903, and Wiesbaden in 1921.
, ''Musée d'Orsay''. Retrieved 26 April 2012. * ''Le Pont Neuf'' (c. 1914), watercolour and gouache on paper, 250 x 190 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York. * ''Barque sur un étang'' (c.1912–1929), watercolour on paper, 30 x 48 cm, Musée Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid."Hippolyt Petitjean"
''Musée Thyssen-Bornemisza''. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
* ''La Danse du printemps'' (1911), oil on canvas, 54 x 105 cm, Musée des Ursulines, Mâcon.
* ''Baigneuse'' (1921), oil on canvas, 55 x 38 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Artworks by Hippolyte Petitjean, The Athenaeum
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Hippolyte Petitjean (11 September 1854, Mâcon – 18 September 1929, Paris) was a French Post-Impressionist
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...
painter who practiced the technique of pointillism
Pointillism (, ) is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" wa ...
.
Biography
When he was 13, Petitjean began his art studies at the ''Ecole de dessin'' in Mâcon. The town gave him a grant to continue at the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied under Alexandre Cabanel and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. He was later influenced by Georges Seurat whom he met in Paris in 1884."FRAN Mâcon: Hippolyte Petitjean"''Musées de Bourgogne''. Retrieved 26 April 2012. After Seurat encouraged him to join the Neo-Impressionists, he was also influenced by Paul Signac and
Camille Pissarro
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but t ...
. He adopted the pointillist technique until 1894 when he started to combine it with more feathery strokes. In 1910, he returned to Neo-Impressionism with a series of decorative watercolours of landscapes and people set off by widely spaced rounded spots of pure colour."Hippolyte Petitjean"''FADA''. Retrieve 26 April 2012. Petitjean exhibited at the ''Salon des Indépendants'' in 1891 and thereafter at ''Le Brac de Bouteville'' together with the symbolists and impressionists. He also exhibited in Brussels in 1893 and 1898, Berlin in 1898, Weimar in 1903, and Wiesbaden in 1921.
Selected works
* ''Jeune femme assise'' (1892), oil on canvas, 73 x 60.5 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy., ''Musée d'Orsay''. Retrieved 26 April 2012. * ''Le Pont Neuf'' (c. 1914), watercolour and gouache on paper, 250 x 190 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York. * ''Barque sur un étang'' (c.1912–1929), watercolour on paper, 30 x 48 cm, Musée Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
''Musée Thyssen-Bornemisza''. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
References
External links
Artworks by Hippolyte Petitjean, The Athenaeum
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