François Nicolas Augustin Feyen, known as Auguste Feyen-Perrin (12 April 1826,

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- 14 October 1888,

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) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator. He added his mother's maiden name to Feyen to help distinguish himself from his older brother,

Jacques-Eugène Feyen Jacques-Eugène Feyen (1815 in Bey-sur-Seille, Meurthe-et-Moselle – 1908 in Paris) was a French painter. Career The elder brother of painter Auguste Feyen-Perrin, Jacques-Eugène enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under Pau ...

, who was already an established artist when Auguste was only fifteen.

Biography

His father was a tax collector. He had his first art lessons with his older brother, Jacques-Eugène, then attended a drawing school in Nancy. After some private lessons with

Michel Martin Drolling Michel Martin Drolling (7 March 1786 – 9 January 1851) was a neoclassic French painter, painter of history and portraitist. Biography He was born in Paris. There, he began painting under the supervision of his father, the painter Martin Dr ...

, he qualified to enroll at the

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in 1848, where he studied with

Léon Cogniet Léon Cogniet (29 August 1794 – 20 November 1880) was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students. Biography He was born in Paris. His father was a painter ...

and

Adolphe Yvon Adolphe Yvon (1817–1893) was a French painter known for his paintings of the Napoleonic Wars. Yvon studied under Paul Delaroche, rose to fame during the Second Empire, then finished his career as a teacher. Career Shortly after the end of t ...

. Specializing in portraits and

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scenes, he had his first exhibition at the Salon in 1853. He continued to exhibit there for most of his life, winning medals in 1865, 1867 and 1874. Once, he gave up the chance to compete for the

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to accept a commission painting theater curtains for the Opéra-Comique. Together with his brother and his friend,

Jules Breton Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1 May 1827 – 5 July 1906) was a 19th-century French naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules ...

, he spent his summers in Cancale; painting scenes from the everyday lives of the Breton peasantry. Many of his works were acquired by public institutions. He was a close friend of

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and worked with him at two organizations Courbet presided over during the Franco-Prussian War: the Museum Commission and the Federation of Artists, created in 1871 during the

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. Despite this potentially compromising activity, he maintained his respectability with the Republican establishment and was decorated with the

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in 1878.Dossier
@ the Base Leonore. His tomb in

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was adorned with a monument by the sculptor, , in 1892.

Selected paintings

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at the Charité File:Feyen-Perrin-Return.jpg, Awaiting the Fishermen's Return File:Beaux-Arts Nancy Feyen-Perrin 50108.jpg,

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Found After the

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References

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ArtNet: More works by Feyen-Perrin.
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Biography

Selected paintings

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