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Guillaume Édouard Marie Dubufe (16 May 1853, Paris
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– 25 May 1909, at sea, near Buenos Aires
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) was a French painter, decorator and illustrator.
Biography
His fatherÉdouard Édouard is both a French given name and a surname, equivalent to Edward in English. Notable people with the name include:
* Édouard Balladur (born 1929), French politician
* Édouard Boubat (1923–1999), French photographer
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was a painter and his mother Juliette Dubufe
Juliette Dubufe (''née'' Zimmerman) (1819 – 6 August 1855) was a French sculptor.
Wife of the painter Édouard Dubufe, Juliette was the elder sister of Anna, wife of composer Charles Gounod. They were the daughters of composer and piano instr ...
(the daughter of composer Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann) was a sculptor. His grandfather, Claude, was also a painter and Charles Gounod
Charles-François Gounod (; ; 17 June 181818 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been ''Faust (opera), Faust'' (1859); his ''Roméo et Juliette'' (18 ...
was his uncle. Sadly, his mother died while giving birth to his sister Hortense when he was only two.
As might be expected, he received his first art lessons from his father, then pursued his studies at 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 ...
under Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle. His first major commission involved decorating the ceiling of the foyer at the Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française () or Théâtre-Français () is one of the few state theatres in France. Founded in 1680, it is the oldest active theatre company in the world. Established as a French state-controlled entity in 1995, it is the only state ...
When not staying at their mansion in Paris, his family (he had five children) stayed at their villa in Anacapri
Anacapri () is a ''comune'' on the island of Capri, in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy.
Anacapri is located higher on the island than Capri (about higher on average)http://www.capritourism.com/imgg/download/capri_map_en.pdf —the Anc ...
on the Isle of Capri, where he painted scenes of his home that would be exhibited in 1906 at the Georges Petit Gallery. From 1888 to 1890, he produced a series of paintings featuring the Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...
. During the 1890s, he decorated the ceilings of the Lobau Gallery at the Hôtel de Ville, the banquet hall at the Élysée Palace/ref> and the library at the
Sorbonne
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* Sorbonne (building), historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities.
*the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970)
*one of its components or linked institution, ...
. In 1896, he designed and produced the décor for the "Salon National des Beaux-Arts". Four years later, he was one of several artists who provided decorations for Le Train Bleu
The ''Calais-Mediterranée Express'' was a French luxury night express train which operated from 1886 to 2003. It gained international fame as the preferred train of wealthy and famous passengers between Calais and the French Riviera during th ...
, a famous restaurant near the Gare de Lyon
The Gare de Lyon, officially Paris-Gare-de-Lyon, is one of the six large mainline railway stations in Paris, France. It handles about 148.1 million passengers annually according to the estimates of the SNCF in 2018, with SNCF railways and RER ...
. From 1906 to 1909, he and Édouard Rosset-Granger decorated the Town Hall of Saint-Mandé
Saint-Mandé () is a high-end commune of the Val-de-Marne department in Île-de-France in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. It is one of the smallest communes of the Île-de-France by land area, but i ...
. He also illustrated several works by the French dramatist Émile Augier
Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (; 17 September 182025 October 1889) was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857.
Biography
Augier was born at Valence, Drôme, the grandson o ...
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He died at sea. His friend, the sculptor Albert Bartholomé provided the bas-relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...
for his memorial at Père Lachaise cemetery. In 1921, his mansion in Paris was acquired by Marie Henner, who turned it into a museum. It was donated to the French government in 1926, and is now known as the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner.
His daughter , also became a painter.
Writings
* ''La Valeur de l'Art'', in the series, "Bibliothèque de philosophie scientifique", éditions E. Flammarion, 1908.References
Further reading
* Editorial staff, "La Mort de M. Guillaume Dubufe" in '' La Vie Parisienne'' (1909) * Armand Guérinet, ''Exposition rétrospective de l'oeuvre de Guillaume Dubufe'': catalog, Société nationale des beaux-arts, Librairie d'art décoratif (1910) * Louise Gaggini et al., ''Le Train Bleu'', Edition Presse Lois Unis Service, Paris (1990)External links
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