François-Antoine Bossuet (21 August 1798
Ypres
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the Dutch name is the official one, the city's French name is most commonly used in English. The municipality comprises the city of Ypres/Ieper ...
– 28 September 1889
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
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) was a painter and draughtsman of the
Belgian school.
Life and work
Bossuet is known for his depictions of the landscapes, cities and monuments of
Spain
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and
Italy
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, with an emphasis on historic places, occasionally with
genre
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scenes of everyday life. He is noted for the excellence of perspective in his paintings, on which he wrote a dissertation in 1843.
His fascination with Spain and Italy stemmed from what had become something of a tradition for romantic European painters. Accordingly, he visited
Andalusía
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and saw its important buildings like the
Alhambra
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of
Granada
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.
He was professor at the
Academy of Fine Arts
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in
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, from 1855 until 1876. His works may be seen in the
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
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, the
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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in Brussels, and the
Victoria and Albert Museum
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in London.
François-Antoine Bossuet - Street Scene Toledo.jpg, Street Scene in Toledo
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Places Belize
* Toledo District
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Bolivia
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François-AntoineBossuetMarchéAuPoisson.jpg, Fish market
Bossuet, Interior of the Church of Notre-Dame at Laeken.jpg, Laeken
References
Further reading
* P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 58-60.
* P. & V. Berko, "19th Century European Virtuoso Painters", Knokke 2011, p. 494, illustrations p. 212, 236, 237, 238, 470.
* Thieme-Becker, ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', vol. 4, Leipzig, 1910, p. 408.
* Le Cabinet des Estampes. ''Trente années d'acquisitions''. 1930-1960, catalogue d'exposition, Bruxelles, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 1961, p. 67.
* Benezit E., ''Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'', Paris, Librairie Gründ, 1976, tome II, p. 198-199.
* Ogonovsky Judith, Bossuet François, dans Le ''Dictionnaire des Peintres belges du XIVe siècle à nos jours depuis les premiers maîtres des anciens Pays-bas méridionaux et de la Principauté de Liège jusqu'aux artistes contemporains'', Bruxelles, La Renaissance du Livre, 1995, p. 109.
External links
More works by Bossuet@ ArtNet
@ MyStudios
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1798 births
1889 deaths
Artists from Ypres
category:Belgian painters
Belgian draughtsmen
Cityscape artists