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Eugénie Salanson
Eugénie Alexandrine Marie Salanson (15 December 1836, Albert, Somme, Albert - 23 July 1912, Saint-Pair-sur-Mer) was a French painter in the Academicism, Academic style. Biography Her father came from Ispagnac to Albert to serve as a tariff collector. The family later moved to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, where her twin sisters were born, then on to Saint-Omer, where her father had been appointed Receiver (head tax collector). It was near there, in Calais, that she took her first art lessons from a local artist named Crocher.biographical notes from ''Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française'' @ Gallica. She then went to Paris to continue her studies but, at that time, the École des Beaux-arts did not accept female applicants, so she attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert, Somme
Albert () is a Communes of France, commune in the Somme (department), Somme Department in France, department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is located about halfway between Amiens and Bapaume. History Albert was founded as a Roman outpost, in about 54 BC. After being known by various forms of the name of the local river, the Ancre, it was renamed to Albert after it passed to Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes. It was a key location in the Battle of the Somme in World War I, and World War I tourism is important for the town. During World War I, the statue of Mary and the infant Jesus – designed by sculptor Albert Roze and dubbed the ''Golden Virgin'' – on top of the Basilica of Our Lady of Brebières was hit by a shell on 15 January 1915 and slumped to a near-horizontal position, where however it remained until further shelling in 1918 destroyed the tower. In his letters home to his wife, Rupert Inglis, who was a former rugby international and now a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
