Eugène Robert Poughéon (18 July 1886 – 1 March 1955) born in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

, was a French artist, painter, illustrator and museum curator.

Biography

Poughéon studied under

Jean-Paul Laurens Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Biography Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexa ...

and

Albert Besnard Paul-Albert Besnard (2 June 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a French painter and printmaker. Biography Besnard was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel. He wo ...

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 ...

in Paris and later at the

École des Arts Décoratifs École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

with Charles Lameire. In 1914 Poughéon won the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

. In 1927, he was awarded the silver medal at the Paris Salon, and two years later the gold medal. In 1935 he started teaching at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Académie Julian. He was made director of the

French Academy in Rome The French Academy in Rome (french: Académie de France à Rome) is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy. History The Academy was founded at the Palazzo Capranica in ...

in 1942, and soon after became curator of the

Musée Jacquemart-André The Musée Jacquemart-André ( en, Jacquemart-André Museum) is a private museum located at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The museum was created from the private home of Édouard André (1833–1894) and Nélie Jacq ...

. Besides his paintings, murals, frescoes, and decors, Poughéon also illustrated books as well as providing artwork for banknotes.

Bibliography

* Alain Lesieutre, ''The Spirit and Splendour of Art Deco'', Paddington Press * Norma, ''Bordeaux années 20-30: de Paris à l'Aquitaine'', 2008 (fr
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Robert Poughéon on Artnet
20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists Currency designers École des Beaux-Arts alumni Académie Julian faculty École des Beaux-Arts faculty Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Curators from Paris 1886 births 1955 deaths 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub

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