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Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize (1807–1893) was a French
Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize (1807–1893) was a French Romantic
Romantic may refer to:
Genres and eras
* The Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement of the 18th and 19th centuries
** Romantic music, of that era
** Romantic poetry, of that era
** Romanticism in science, of that e ...
painter of history painting
History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek and Roman mythology and Bible ...
s and genre paintings
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 attached ...
.
Career
He studied under the paintersAchille Devéria
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (6 February 180023 December 1857) was a French painter and lithographer known for his portraits of famous writers and artists. His younger brother was the Romantic painter Eugène Devéria, and two of his six ...
and Eugène Devéria
Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria (22 April 1805, in Paris – 3 February 1865, in Pau) was a French Romantic history painter, portraitist and muralist.
Biography
He was one of five children born to François-Marie Devéria, a Bureau C ...
and taught Paul-Maurice Duthoit and his son Pierre-Paul-Léon Glaize.
Born in Montpellier, Auguste Glaize was one of the great French Romantic painters of the early 19th century, marking his career with important history paintings and cycles of monumental religious paintings in several churches in Paris and the provinces. He was most well known for painting beautiful mythological or historical scenes, often containing nude females and the humanity he portrayed in his subjects faces. The painting conserved in the church at Quesnoy-sur-Airaines is considered one of his masterworks.
The sometimes anti-establishment themes in his paintings, earned criticism from religious leaders at the time. For example, while praising the beauty and originality of his painting Alfred Des Essarts
Alfred des Essarts (9 August 1811 – 18 May 1893) was a 19th-century French poet, translator, playwright and writer, the father of Emmanuel des Essarts.
Biography
A curator at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, a journalist at ''La ...
criticised what he saw as a 'profane' way to treat religious subjects. This was typical of religious criticism of romantic art at the time.
Some works
*Amiens
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, musée de Picardie
The Musée de Picardie is the main museum of Amiens and Picardy, in France. It is located at 48, rue de la République, Amiens. Its collections include artifacts ranging from prehistory to the 19th century, and form one of the largest regiona ...
: ''Les Écueils'', Salon de 1864.
* Autun
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, musée Rolin
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Created in 1878 on the initiative of the , it is located on the site of the former home of Chancellor Nicolas Rolin. Its collections range from Gallo-Roman archaeology to 20th cen ...
: '' Les Femmes gauloises, épisode de l'invasion romaine'', esquisse pour le tableau conservé à Paris au musée d'Orsay.
* Avignon
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, musée Calvet
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: ''Luca Signorelli se disposant à peindre son fils tué en duel à Cortone''.
* Béziers
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, musée des beaux-arts : ''Les Amours à l'encan''.
*Brest
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*Bre ...
, musée des beaux-arts : ''L'immaculée conception entre saint François de Sales et sainte Jeanne de Chantal'', 1853, huile sur toile, 252,5 x 202 cm.
* Lodève
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, cathédrale Saint-Fulcran : ''L'humilité de Sainte Élisabeth de Hongrie,'' 1843.
* Marseille
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, musée des beaux-arts : ''Le Pilori''.
* Montpellier:
** musée Fabre
The Musée Fabre is a museum in the southern French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault ''département''.
The museum was founded by François-Xavier Fabre, a Montpellier painter, in 1825. Beginning in 2003, the museum underwent a 61.2 ...
:
*** ''Le Sang de Vénus'', 1845;
*** ''Portrait d'Alfred Bruyas, dit Le Burnous'', 1849;
*** ''Portrait de Bruyas'';
*** ''Intérieur du cabinet de Bruyas'', 1848;
*** ''Souvenir des Pyrénées'', 1851.
** Chapelle de la Miséricorde :
*** ''Les Dames de la Miséricorde''
* Nogent-sur-Seine
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Population
...
, église paroissiale Saint-Laurent : ''Conversion de Marie-Madeleine'', 1844.
* Paris
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:
** église Saint-Eustache
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Situated near the site of Paris' medieval marketplace (Les Halles) and rue ...
, chapelle de la Rédemption :
*** ''La Naissance du Christ'';
*** ''La Mort de Jésus-Christ'';
*** ''Adam et Ève chassés du paradis'';
*** ''La Captivité de Babylone''.
** église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas
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: ''La Trinité'' (1868), plafond.
** musée du Louvre
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: ''Héliodore chassé du temple''.
** musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French a ...
: '' Les Femmes gauloises, épisode de l'invasion romaine''.
* Pantin
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, église paroissiale Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois : ''Sainte Elisabeth de Hongrie''
* Rouen
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, musée des beaux-arts : ''La Pourvoyeuse de misère''..
* Vicdessos
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File:Auguste-Barthélémy Glaize 1853 L'Immaculée Conception.jpg, ''L'Immaculée Conception'', 1853
File:Glaize-Olim.JPG, ''Souvenir of the Pyrenees'', 1851
File:Glaize-Alfred Bruyas.JPG, ''Portrait d'Alfred Bruyas'', 1849
Un chef-d'Å“uvre de Glaize.
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Un chef-d'Å“uvre de Glaize.
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