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Léopold Flameng
Léopold Flameng (22 November 1831, Brussels – 5 September 1911, Courgent) was a French engraver, illustrator and painter. Biography His parents were from France, and he began his artistic studies in Paris with Luigi Calamatta and Jean Gigoux. His engraving skills were noticed by Charles Blanc, and his collaboration with his fellow engraver, Léon Gaucherel, in the ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'' and ''L'Artiste'', helped to ensure his reputation. and elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1898. His numerous students included Richard Geiger, Auguste Laguillermie, and Paul Adolphe Rajon, as well as his son, François Flameng, François. Gallery File:Léopold Flameng - Charles Meryon.jpg, Charles Meryon on His Sick Bed (1858) File:Marguérite bij de fontein Marguerite a la fontaine (titel op object), RP-P-1910-3243.jpg, Marguérite at the fountain (after Ary Scheffer) File:Léopold Flameng - Lectures pour tous.jpg, Cover of ' (1911) File:Léopold Flameng - Puvis de Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Scarron
Paul Scarron (; – 6 October 1660) (a.k.a. Monsieur Scarron) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist, born in Paris. Though his precise birth date is unknown, he was baptized on 4 July 1610. Scarron was the first husband of Françoise d'Aubigné, who later became Madame de Maintenon and secretly married King Louis XIV of France. Life Scarron was born and died in Paris. He was the seventh child of Paul Scarron, a noble of the robe and member of the Parlement of Paris, and Gabrielle Goguet. Paul became an abbé when he was nineteen. He lived in Le Mans from 1632 to 1640, and in 1635 traveled to Rome with his patron, Charles de Beaumanoir, the bishop of Le Mans. Finding a patron in Marie de Hautefort, maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIII, he became a well-known figure in literary and fashionable society. In 1638, Scarron became disabled. One source ( Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle, ''Memoires... de Mme de Maintenon'') attributed Scarron's deformities to rheumatism cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Flameng
François Léopold Flameng (1856–1923) was a notable French painter during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th. He was the son of Léopold Flameng, a celebrated printmaker, and received a first-rate education in his craft. Biography Upon completing his studies with his father, he attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, where his primary instructor was Alexandre Cabanel. Beginning in 1870, he made reproductions of the works of several famous artists, for the catalogue of the Durand-Ruel gallery.Portal of thCollections des Musées de France @ the Base Joconde He made his debut at the Salon in 1875 with his painting ''The Lectern''. In 1881, he married Henriette Augusta Turque (1863-1919); the daughter of , the Undersecretary of State. They would have two daughters: Jean (1882-1915) and Marie (1884-1969), who married the tennis player Max Decugis. Their friends, John Singer Sargent and Paul Helleu, were regular guests at thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Adolphe Rajon
Paul-Adolphe Rajon (1843 – 8 June 1888) was a French painter and printmaker, who started his career as a photographer. Early life Born at Dijon, Rajon was the third child of Jean Marie Rajon, a hairdresser, by his marriage with Caroline Jaugey, a shop girl some thirty years younger. They had a daughter, Marguerite, born in 1839, and another son, Charles Henri, born in 1840. He died on 8 June 1888 at Auvers-sur-Oise, of pneumonia. Selected works File:Félix Bracquemond by Paul Rajon.jpg, Portrait of Félix Bracquemond (1878) File:Paul Adolphe Rajon - Portrait of Henry Walters - Walters 372545.jpg, portrait of Henry Walters, 1886. File:Paul Adolphe Rajon - Portrait of William T Walters - Walters 372542.jpg, portrait of William T. Walters, 1887. References Further reading *Robert J. Wickenden, "Paul Adolphe Rajon (1842–1888)" in ''The Print-Collector’s Quarterly'', Vol. VI, Part 2 (December 1916), pp. 410–34 External links Rajon at the Centre for Whistler Studies< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Laguillermie
Frédéric-Auguste Laguillermie (27 March 1841, Paris – 14 December 1934, Paris) was a French etcher and painter. He was one of the founders of the . Biography He was born to Eugénie, née Hime, and Frédéric-Guillaume Laguillermie (1805–1870), an engraver and printer, who was the associate cartographer for Victor Levasseur (cartographer), Victor Levasseur. He received his initial training in his father's studio then, in 1861, entered the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied etching with Léopold Flameng, and painting with William Bouguereau. In 1862, he became one of the first members of the original , founded by Alfred Cadart, who published several of his early plates. His first exhibit at the Salon (Paris), Salon came in 1863. He won the Prix de Rome in 1866, for his Intaglio (printmaking), intaglio work, and spent four years at the Villa Medici.Jules Martin (Ed.), '' Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs…'', Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1897, pg.228Online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
