Alphonse Henri Périn (12 May 1798,

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- 6 October 1874,

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) was a French painter and

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. His early paintings were devoted to history and architecture, but he later focused on figures.

Biography

His father was the painter

Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux (12 October 1753 – 20 December 1817) was a French portrait painter, pastelist and miniaturist. Biography Périn-Salbreux was born and died in Reims. He came from a family of textile manufacturers. As he had fou ...

. In 1817, he entered the

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, where he studied in the workshops of

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin Pierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin (13 March 1774 – 6 July 1833) was a French painter, born in Paris. Biography A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three ''grands prix'' offered in 1796, in consequence of the competitio ...

and

Jean-Victor Bertin Jean-Victor Bertin (20 March 1767
The birth year of 1775 often ascribed him is thus false.

. In 1821, he was awarded the

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for historical painting. He lived in Rome for nine years altogether, and often collaborated with

Victor Orsel André Jacques Victor Orsel (25 May 1795, Oullins - 1 November 1850, Paris) was a French painter; primarily of religious subjects. Biography He was born to an old merchant family of Dauphiné. His father, Jacques Orsel (1750-1800), was a gauze ...

at the

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. This influenced him to devote himself to figure studies, rather than history. In 1827, he sent his first works to Paris, for exhibition at the

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. He was awarded a second-class medal. He returned to France in 1830. Three years later, he painted several murals in the Chapel of the Eucharist at the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. They were created with the assistance of his friend, Orsel, and Michel Dumas, a student of

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. They are now considered to be his major work. His late works consisted almost entirely of drawings and lithographs. In 1854 he was named a Knight in the

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and the

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.Documentation
@ the

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His last exhibit at the Salon was in 1859. In addition to painting he wrote ''Le sculpteur suédois Fogelberg'' (E. Chunot, 1855), and ''Œuvres diverses de Victor Orsel'' (Rapilly, 1852–1878, 2 volumes), which was completed by his son Félix.

References

Emmanuel Bénézit Charles Emmanuel Bénézit (; Jersey, 1854 – Paris, 1920) was a French gallery owner, collector, art historian and editor of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists The ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists'' (in French, ''Bénézit: Dictionnaire des pe ...

, ''Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres'', vol. 8, Gründ, 1976

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Drawings by Périn
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