Paul Ä–douard Poincy (1833 – 1909) was an artist in
,
United States
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who specialized in portrait, religious, landscape, and
genre painting
Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached ...
.
Biography
Paul Édouard Rossignol des Dunes de Poincy was born in New Orleans to a well-to-do family of French descent, and was part of a group of New Orleans artists whose cultural ties were more closesly related to France than the South or to eastern U.S. cultural centers such as New York City.
He studied art in
Paris
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at the
Académie Julien
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and 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 century ...
. His studies in Paris extended from 1852 to 1859, during which time he was influenced by Parisian artists
Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre
Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre (2 May 1806 – 5 May 1874), was a Swiss artist who was a resident in France from an early age. He took over the studio of Paul Delaroche in 1843 and taught a number of younger artists who became prominent, including He ...
and
Léon Cogniet.
[''Who Was Who in American Art (1564 - 1975): 400 Years of Artists in America'', Peter Hastings Falk, editor, Sound View Press, 1999, .] On his return to New Orleans, Poincy opened a studio with French-born artist
Richard Clague. He was well-known for paintings of New Orleans street scenes and portraits of children.
He subsequently served in the
Confederate Army
The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...
during the
US Civil War.
Following his military service, Poincy had a close association with artis
Victor Pierson The collaboration resulted in the paintin
''Volunteer Firemen's Parade'' a noted work completed in 1872. Poincy was a founder of th
Southern Art Union
Gallery
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1833 births
1909 deaths
19th-century American painters
19th-century American male artists
20th-century American painters
American male painters
Artists from Louisiana
20th-century American male artists