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Georges Gabriel Picard (23 December 1857,
His father, Abraham Picard, was an embroidery maker. He completed his studies at the Documentation
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Picard-Frog.jpg, Young Girl with a Frog
Picard-Pink.jpg, Under the Pink Tree
Picard-Wedding.jpg, Wedding Night
Picard-Auto.jpg, "Vive l'Auto!"
File:FÉES DANSE.jpg, Dancing Fairies
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Georges Gabriel Picard (23 December 1857, Remiremont
Remiremont (; german: Romberg or ) is a town and commune in the Vosges department, northeastern France, situated in southern Grand Est. The town has been an abbatial centre since the 7th century, is an economic crossroads of the Moselle and Mos ...
- 25 January 1943, Yzeures-sur-Creuse
Yzeures-sur-Creuse (, literally ''Yzeures on Creuse (river), Creuse'') is a communes of France, commune in the Indre-et-Loire departments of France, department, central France.
It is one of the oldest towns in Touraine, occupation dating back to ...
) was a French painter, decorative artist, and illustrator, of Jewish ancestry. Some sources give his year of death as 1946.
Biography
His father, Abraham Picard, was an embroidery maker. He completed his studies at the Lycée Charlemagne
The Lycée Charlemagne is located in the Marais quarter of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, the capital city of France.
Constructed many centuries before it became a lycée, the building originally served as the home of the Order of the Jesui ...
in 1877, then entered the École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centur ...
, where he was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ra ...
for two years. In 1879, he was noticed by Paul Philippoteaux
Paul Dominique Philippoteaux (27 January 1846 – 28 June 1923) was a French artist. He is best known for a cyclorama illustrating the Battle of Gettysburg.
Life and career
Paul Philippoteaux was born in Paris, the son of the French artist ...
, who selected him as one of five assistants to help create panoramas
A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images, or 3D modeling. The word was originally coined in ...
, for exhibition in the United States from 1885 to 1887.
His first individual showing came at the Salon in 1888. The following year, he participated in the "Salon de l'Europe" at the Casino de Monte-Carlo. Then worked with Henri Gervex
Henri Gervex (Paris 10 December 1852 – 7 June 1929 Paris) was a French painter who studied painting under Alexandre Cabanel, Pierre-Nicolas Brisset, and Eugène Fromentin.
Biography Early years
He was the son of Joséphine Peltier and Félix ...
and Alfred Stevens to produce a triptych
A triptych ( ; from the Greek adjective ''τρίπτυχον'' "''triptukhon''" ("three-fold"), from ''tri'', i.e., "three" and ''ptysso'', i.e., "to fold" or ''ptyx'', i.e., "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided ...
for the Exposition Universelle. At the Salon of 1891, his view of the Port of Le Havre
The Port of Le Havre is the Port and port authority of the French city of Le Havre. It is the second-largest commercial port in France in terms of overall tonnage, and the largest container port, with three sets of terminals. It can accommodate al ...
was purchased by the government.
That same year, he began a series of decorations, comprising an allegory of the "Glory of Paris", in the Galerie Lobau at the Hôtel de ville. This would occupy him until 1898.
As a member of the Commission Administrative des Beaux-Arts, he intervened in favor of his friend, René Lalique
René Jules Lalique (6 April 1860 – 1 May 1945) was a French jeweller, medallist, and glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks, and automobile hood ornaments.
Life
Lalique' ...
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The following year, he was commissioned to decorate the ceremonial dining hall at the French Embassy in Vienna
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. He produced a diorama with the Palace of Versailles and the Place de la Concorde
The Place de la Concorde () is one of the major public squares in Paris, France. Measuring in area, it is the largest square in the French capital. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées.
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. Shortly after returning to France, he painted the plafond
A plafond (French for "ceiling"), in a broad sense, is a (flat, vaulted or dome) ceiling.
A plafond can be a product of monumental painting or sculpture. Picturesque plafonds can be painted directly on plaster (as a fresco, oil, glutinous, s ...
s in the south pavilion of the Petit Palais
The Petit Palais (; en, Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (''Musée des beaux-arts ...
. A series of similar commissions followed, at the Teatro Colón
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in Buenos Aires
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, and the Opéra de Lille
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, among others.
In addition to painting, he worked as an illustrator for numerous journals. He also illustrated books, including the ''Contes'' (fairy tales) of Charles Perrault, as well as several works by Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet (; 13 May 184016 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet.
Early life
Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the ...
and Charles Nodier
Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier (29 April 1780 – 27 January 1844) was a French author and librarian who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the ''conte fantastique'', gothic literature, and vampire tales. His dream related writings ...
.
His wife, Marie Josephine, née Chypre, died in 1938. During the invasion of Alsace
Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...
in 1940, he was removed from his home in Obernai
Obernai ( Alsatian: ''Owernah''; german: Oberehnheim) commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It lies on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains.
Obernai is a rapidly growing city, its number of inhabitants hav ...
and deported to Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...
, along with several Jewish families. He was discovered there by an old friend, the photographer Paul Haviland
Paul Burty Haviland (17 June 1880 – 21 December 1950) was a French-American photographer, writer and arts critic who was closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession.
Biography
Haviland was born to Charles Edward and Madelei ...
, who took him to his home in Yzeures-sur-Creuse. He died there in 1943, of cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest is when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating. It is a medical emergency that, without immediate medical intervention, will result in sudden cardiac death within minutes. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and poss ...
.
Selected paintings
References
Further reading
* Gérard Schurr, ''Les Petits Maîtres de la peinture 1820-1920, valeur de demain'', Vol.VII, Paris, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, 1989External links
* Raymond Escholier, ''Le nouveau Paris, la vie artistique de la cité moderne'', Paris, Éd. Nilsson, 1913Page 59
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