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Pierre Ernest Ballue (27 February 1855 – 18 May 1928) was a French landscape painter and designer, associated with the Barbizon School.
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Pierre Ernest Ballue (27 February 1855 – 18 May 1928) was a French landscape painter and designer, associated with the Barbizon School.
Biography
He was born in La Haye-Descartes. His family's presence there and in Buxeuil goes back to the sixteenth century. Two of his relatives served as mayors of the municipality: René (1804–1807) and Pierre (1816–1830). His parents relocated to Paris in 1867. There he studied art with Alexandre Defaux, , andCamille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output si ...
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He became a regular exhibitor at the Salon
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and was awarded several medals. His favored place for painting was Touraine
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, but he travelled throughout France, to the Côte d'Azur
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, the area around Crozant
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, and in Fresselines
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A tourism and farming village situated some northwest of Guéret, at the junction of the D76 and the D44 roads, where the ri ...
. In 1886, he was one of the artists who accompanied Auguste Bartholdi Auguste may refer to:
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to the United States, to celebrate the inauguration of the Statue of Liberty
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In 1895, he married Thérèse Pomey, a genre
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painter and miniaturist, who had been a student of her father, Louis Edmond Pomey (1831–1891). They had two daughters, Marie-Louise and , who married the veterinarian . During World War II
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, she and André were members of the Resistance.Anonymous: ''Justes et Persécutés durant la périiode Nazie dans les communes de France''.
Ballue died in his hometown. A street there has been named in his honor.
His works may be seen at the , the Louvre
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, and the Musée des beaux-arts de Tours
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References
Further reading
* Yanick Antigny, ''Pierre-Ernest Ballue, ce peintre méconnu (1855-1928)'', Descartes, Antya Editions, * Paul Pfisterer, Claire Pfisterer, ''Signaturenlexikon - Dictionary of signatures'', Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1999,External links
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