Auguste Allongé (19 March 1833,

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- 4 July 1898,

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) was a French painter, illustrator and engraver.

Biography

He enrolled at the

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in 1852, where he studied with

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and

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. He was awarded a medal there in 1853. After graduating, he chose to specialize in landscapes and worked as a drawing teacher. He was heavily influenced by the

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and became associated with the . In 1873, he published a treatise on the art of drawing in charcoal (''Le Fusain''), which has been translated into several languages. It was reprinted in 1891 and 1907. His approach was novel, in that charcoal was normally used only for preliminary sketching, but he suggested techniques by which it could be polished into finished works with a special quality of their own.''Extraits sur le site van-gogh''
/ref> He provided illustrations for ''Les promenades de Paris'', by

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, and ''La Forêt de Fontainebleau'', by

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. His students included

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and Albert Rigolot. A street in Bourron-Marlotte has been named after him. His works may be seen at the Museum of modern art André Malraux (MuMa), the and the

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, among others.

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