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Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois, also known as Gustave Courtois (; 18 May 1852 in
Courtois was born 18 May 1852 in 
"Gustave Claude Etienne Courtois"
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Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois, also known as Gustave Courtois (; 18 May 1852 in Pusey, Haute-Saône
Pusey () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
The town is located near Vesoul.
See also
*Communes of the Haute-Saône department
*Communauté d'agglomération de Vesoul
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– 1923 in Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residentia ...
) was a French painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
, a representative of the academic style of art.
Life
Courtois was born 18 May 1852 in Pusey, Haute-Saône
Pusey () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
The town is located near Vesoul.
See also
*Communes of the Haute-Saône department
*Communauté d'agglomération de Vesoul
The Co ...
, France to an unwed mother who was devoted to him. Early in life, Courtois revealed an interest in art and entered the École municipale de dessin in Vesoul
Vesoul () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté located in eastern France.
It is the most populated municipality of the department with inhabitants in 2014. The same year, the Communauté d'agglo ...
(Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou: ''Fraintche-Comtè''; frp, Franche-Comtât; also german: Freigrafschaft; es, Franco Condado; all ) is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, ...
). His drawings were shown to 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 ran ...
, and in 1869, Gérôme encouraged Courtais to enter the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Science ...
in Paris. Through his life, Courtois was in close friendship with fellow student Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, together with whom he maintained a fashionable studio in Neuilly-sur-Seine from the 1880s.
He taught painting at Académie de la Grande Chaumière
The Académie de la Grande Chaumière is an art school in the Montparnasse district of Paris, France.
History
The school was founded in 1904 by the Catalan painter Claudio Castelucho on the rue de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, near the Acadé ...
, Académie Colarossi, Paris, where Harriet Campbell Foss, Georges d'Espagnat, Eva Bonnier
Eva Fredrika Bonnier (17 November 1857 – 13 January 1909) was a Swedish painter and philanthropist.
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Biography
Born in Stockholm as the daughter of publisher Albert Bonnier and a member of a leading family of publishers, Bonnier st ...
, Emma Cheves Wilkins, and Dora Hitz
Dora Hitz (30 March 1856, Altdorf bei Nürnberg - 20 November 1924, Berlin) was a Court Painter to the Romanian Royal Family, a member of the November Group and co-founder of the Berlin Secession.
Life
When she was six years old, her family ...
were students.
Courtois exhibited at the Salon de Paris, receiving a third-place medal in 1878 and a second-place medal in 1880. He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889 and exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1911 to 1914. He was made a Chevalier in the Légion d'Honneur.
His paintings can be seen in the art galleries of Besançon, Marseille, Bordeaux, and Luxembourg. He was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon B ...
. Among his students were Willard Dryden Paddock, Mary Rose Hill Burton, and Sara Page
Sara Wells Page (1855–1943) was a British artist, portrait and figurative painter, of the Victorian and Edwardian period. During her lifetime she was widely exhibited at Parisian salons and British galleries, including the Royal Academy of Ar ...
.
References
Sources
*Gabriel P. Weisberg. ''Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition''. 2002.External links
*"Gustave Claude Etienne Courtois"
''Artnet''
"The New Bonnet"
''Christies'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Courtois, Gustave-Claude-Etienne 1853 births 1923 deaths Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists École des Beaux-Arts alumni People from Vesoul Members of the Ligue de la patrie française Académie Colarossi alumni 19th-century French male artists