Hippolyte Petitjean (; 11 September 1854,

Mâcon Mâcon (), historically Anglicization, anglicised as Mascon, is a city in east-central France. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Saône-et-Loire in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Mâcon is home t ...

– 18 September 1929, Paris) was a French Post-Impressionist painter who practiced the technique of

pointillism Pointillism (, ) is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism ...

Biography

When he was 13, Petitjean began his art studies at the ''Ecole de dessin'' in Mâcon. The town gave him a grant to continue at the

École des Beaux-Arts ; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...

where he studied under

Alexandre Cabanel Alexandre Cabanel (; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French Painting, painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the Academic art, academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon ...

and

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (; 14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Ar ...

. He was later influenced by

Georges Seurat Georges Pierre Seurat ( , ; ; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough ...

whom he met in Paris in 1884."FRAN Mâcon: Hippolyte Petitjean"
''Musées de Bourgogne''. Retrieved 26 April 2012. After Seurat encouraged him to join the Neo-Impressionists, he was also influenced by Paul Signac and

Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( ; ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). ...

. He adopted the pointillist technique until 1894 when he started to combine it with more feathery strokes. In 1910, he returned to

Neo-Impressionism Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Seurat's most renowned masterpiece, '' A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'', marked the begin ...

with a series of decorative watercolours of landscapes and people set off by widely spaced rounded spots of pure colour."Hippolyte Petitjean"
''FADA''. Retrieve 26 April 2012. Petitjean exhibited at the ''Salon des Indépendants'' in 1891 and thereafter at ''Le Brac de Bouteville'' together with the symbolists and impressionists. He also exhibited in Brussels in 1893 and 1898, Berlin in 1898, Weimar in 1903, and Wiesbaden in 1921.

Selected works

* ''Jeune femme assise'' (1892), oil on canvas, 73 x 60.5 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy.
, ''Musée d'Orsay''. Retrieved 26 April 2012. * ''Le Pont Neuf'' (c. 1914), watercolour and gouache on paper, 250 x 190 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York. * ''Barque sur un étang'' (c.1912–1929), watercolour on paper, 30 x 48 cm, Musée Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid."Hippolyt Petitjean"
''Musée Thyssen-Bornemisza''. Retrieved 26 April 2012. * ''La Danse du printemps'' (1911), oil on canvas, 54 x 105 cm, Musée des Ursulines, Mâcon. * ''Baigneuse'' (1921), oil on canvas, 55 x 38 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

References

External links

Artworks by Hippolyte Petitjean, The Athenaeum
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