Pierre Aristide André Brouillet (1 September 1857 – 6 December 1914) was a French

academic painter Academic art, or academicism or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académi ...

specialising in

genre painting Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attache ...

, portraits and landscapes.

Life

Born in Charroux, the son of sculptor Pierre-Amédée Brouillet and Élisabeth Leriget, Brouillet began engineering studies at the

École centrale Paris École Centrale Paris (ECP; also known as École Centrale or Centrale) was a French grande école in engineering and science. It was also known by its official name ''École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures''. In 2015, École Centrale Paris mer ...

in 1876 before entering the

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French '' grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Scien ...

three years later, where he was a student of

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ra ...

.. In the year of his reception at the

Salon de peinture et de sculpture The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

in 1879, he attended

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 Alex ...

' lessons. During his career, he received numerous exhibition awards and numerous public commissions. He is best known for his painting '' A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière'' which represents the neurologist Jean Martin Charcot examining the hysterical patient Marie Wittman, during one of these famous "Tuesday lessons", which he had made a real show. Charcot is represented there with a large number of his students and collaborators, including Théodule-Armand Ribot, Paul Richer and Gilles de La Tourette. The neurologist Joseph Babinski is also present, supporting the patient. Brouillet is also the author of ''La Violation du tombeau d'Urgel par les Dominicains'' ''L'Exorcisme - Musiciens arabes chassant le djinn du corps d'un enfant'', ''Le Paysan blessé'' (Salon of 1886), ''L'Ambulance de la Comédie-Française en 1870'' (1891), ''Le Vaccin du croup à l'hôpital Trousseau'' (1895), as well as portraits of personalities of the time, including Joseph Babinski. Influenced by his master Jean-Léon Gérôme, Brouillet devoted himself to orientalist painting, thanks to his discovery of his wife, Emma Isaac, native country, daughter of a rich Constantine Jewish merchant, cousin of Ferdinand Isaac, whose daughter, Yvonne, born out of wedlock in 1889 in Constantine, he even adopted when his mother, Marie-Louise Travers died 19 December 1892.. The following year, in 1893, when he returned to France with his adopted daughter, he raised Yvonne as his own daughter, representing her in no less than fourteen paintings. A student of the singer

Louise Grandjean Louise Grandjean (1870–1934) was a French operatic soprano who was particularly admired for her portrayals of Wagner and Verdi heroines. She began her career in Paris in 1894 where she became a popular and active singer until 1911. She also reg ...

, she was hired on June 25, 1911, at the

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as a lyrical singer, under the stage name "Yvonne Florentz" and married the composer in 1913. Brouillet visited Greece twice, first in 1901 for a state commission (''Renan meditating on his prayer on the Acropolis'') and then in 1903 to paint th portrait of the Queen Olga of Greece, in 1901. In 1904, the newspaper '' Fémina'' consecrated him as the "peintre de la femme". In 1906, he was made an officier of the

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon B ...

at the same time as he received the gold medal at the Salon where he presented his great composition for the Sorbonne ''Les étudiants acclament Edgar Quinet et Edmond Michelet le 6 mars 1848 lorsqu'ils reprennent possession de leur chaire''. He left on an icy road to rescue a convoy of

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on 6 December 1914, became congested and died a few hours later. His funeral was held in Couhé-Vérac.

Illustrations

Brouillet left an illustrator's pieces for a number of works between 1883 and 1903 and participated in the illustration of the cover of the ''Figaro illustré'' of November 1891 and October 1893. * ''Le Noël de Lucette'' by

Henry Gréville Alice Marie Céleste Durand (' Fleury; 12 October 1842 in Paris – 26 May 1902) was a French writer best known under her pen name Henry Gréville. The daughter of a professor, she accompanied her father to St. Petersburg, studied languages ...

published in the September 1891 issue of the ''Figaro illustré'' * ''Une Chasse au loup'' by

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published in the November 1893 issue of the ''Figaro illustré''. * ''Les Découvertes de M. Jean'' by Émile Desbeaux at P. Ducrocq in 1883. * ''Les Contemplations'' by

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

published at Testard in 1886, with the engraving ''Bergère et troupeaux''. * ''Les Reliques d'amour'' by Emmanuel Ducros published at

Alphonse Lemerre Alphonse Lemerre (Canisy, Normandy, France, 1838 – Paris, France, 1912) was a 19th-century French editor and publisher, known especially for having been the first to publish many of the Parnassian poets. Life Alphonse Lemerre was the ei ...

in 1886. * ''Steeple-Chase'' by

Paul Bourget Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (; 2 September 185225 December 1935) was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Life Paul Bourget was born in Amiens in the Somme ''département'' of Picar ...

published at Alphonse Lemerre in 1894. * ''La Volonté du Bonheur'' by Jules Case, Paris, at

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in 1895. * ''Fort comme la mort'' by

Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...

, Paris, at Paul Ollendorff in 1904. * ''Une tache d'encre'' by René Bazin published at Mame in Tours in 1889, couronnée par l'Académie française en 1904. * ''Les Musardises, La Brouette'' by

Edmond Rostand Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (, , ; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play ''Cyrano de Bergerac''. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with t ...

, Paris, librairie Pierre Lafitte & Cie, 1910, p. 160.

References

Sources

Dossier de Légion d'honneur d'André Brouillet.

External links

Brouillet, André (1er septembre 1857 - 5 décembre 1914)
on Bases art
André Brouillet
in Joconde database
Association André Brouillet
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brouillet, Andre 19th-century French painters École des Beaux-Arts alumni École Centrale Paris alumni Officers of the Legion of Honour 1857 births People from Vienne (department) 1914 deaths