Camille Bouvagne (born Jean-Baptiste Camille Bouvagne) (1864–1936) was a French painter from
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
,
France
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. A member of the
Lyon School
The Lyon School (french: École de Lyon) is a term for a group of French artists which gathered around Paul Chenavard. It was founded by Pierre Revoil, one of the representatives of the Troubadour style. It included Victor Orsel, Louis Janmot a ...
(L'École de Lyon or École lyonnaise), Bouvagne exhibited regularly at the Le Salon in Lyon (Salon de la Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts).
Œuvre
Bouvagne, a keen observer of nature, specialized in
landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...
and
still life
A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...
painting. His style remains split between classical
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...
and
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...
; thin, relatively small, yet visible brush strokes, exhibiting an accurate depiction of light and colors that took precedence over lines and contours. Following the example of painters such as
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, is a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast ...
, Bouvagne's palette is restrained, dominated by browns, blacks and silvery green, his brushstrokes carefully controlled.
Career
Camille Bouvagne studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (
École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
) under Pierre Miciol (French, 1833–1905), who was a former student of the French academic painter
Jehan Georges Vibert
Jehan Georges Vibert or Jean Georges Vibert (30 September 1840 – 28 July 1902) was a French academic painter.
Biography
He was born in Paris, the son of engraver and publisher Théodore Vibert, and grandson of the influential rose-breeder Je ...
(1840–1902) and the first co-president of the Société Lyonnaise des Beaux Arts.
Selected exhibitions and works
Le Salon, 1914, Lyon (Salon de la Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts)
[Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts, Salon 1914, Acquisitions by the Société des Anciens Elèves de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, ''Chrysanthèmes jaunes'' by Camille Bouvagne, La Revue des Beaux-Arts, Petit Édition, 12 July 1914](_blank)
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* ''Chrysanthèmes jaunes''. Purchased by the Société des Anciens Elèves de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Gallery
File:Camille Bouvagne, 1896, Bouquet de fleurs, oil on canvas, 65 x 77.5 (including frame), private collection, France.jpg, Camille Bouvagne, 1896, ''Bouquet de fleurs'', oil on canvas, 65 x 77.5 (including frame), private collection, France
File:Camille Bouvagne, 1896, Nature morte au canard et à la perdrix, oil on canvas, 117 x 90 cm, private collection, France.jpg, Camille Bouvagne, 1896, ''Nature morte au canard et à la perdrix'', oil on canvas, 117 x 90 cm, private collection, France
References
External links
Le Passe-temps, littérature, beaux-arts, musique, biographies, nouvelles lieu d'édition: Lyon
(pdf)
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1864 births
1936 deaths
Artists from Lyon
French landscape painters
Impressionist artists
Modern painters
Realist artists
19th-century French painters
French male painters
20th-century French painters
19th-century French male artists