Auguste Baud-Bovy (13 February 1848,

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- 3 June 1899, Davos) was a Swiss painter who specialized in landscapes, village scenes and shepherds.

Biography

His father, Henri-Georges Baud, was the director of a well known jewelry store (Le Bijouterie Baud) which is still in business. In 1849, the Bovy and Balland families purchased the Château de Gruyères, restored it, and used it for a summer residence. The Bauds were among their regular guests and Auguste spent much of his childhood there. The Bovys were also

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and their home, "La Colonie" served as the meeting place for many famous artists. Through one of the Bovys, he made friends with and began taking lessons from

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. In 1868, he married Zoé-Jeanne-Suzanne Bovy, who was an enamel painter. After that, he styled his name as "Baud-Bovy". By 1870, he was a professor at the Municipal Art School in Geneva. There, he made many friends among those who had come to Switzerland as a result of the

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, including

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, Elisée Reclus and

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, whom he painted alongside at

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. It was even rumored that he stole his father's passport to help Courbet enter Switzerland. He and Zoé had two sons, André-Valentin (1875-1903), who also became a painter, and Daniel, a writer and art historian who served as the Conservator at the

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, Director of the École des Beaux-Arts de Genève and President of the . Daniel was, in turn, father of the musician Samuel Baud-Bovy. Feeling overwhelmed, Baud-Bovy abandoned teaching in 1880 and took a trip to Spain. He decided to move his family to Paris in 1882, but was only there for a few years when he read a book on the Swiss countryside and was inspired to visit the small village of

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. In 1888, he relocated there. In 1891, together with Eugène Burnand and François Furet (1842-1919), he created part of a panorama (now lost) of the

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that was shown at the

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in 1893. That same year, thanks to a petition by

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, Auguste Rodin and others, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor. In 1897, he had a major exhibition at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris. In his final years, he suffered from

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. He stayed at Antibes in 1898, seeking a cure, then went to live with André-Valentin in Davos, where he died in 1899.

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