Alfred Jean Garnier
Illustration — Portrait of Alfred Garnier by Jules Bastien-Lepage, June 1870 Alfred Jean Garnier (1848–1908) was a French enameller, and pupil and collaborator of Paul Grandhomme. He was born in Puiseaux, Loiret and died in Bazoches, Nièvre. He was a painter, engraver and enameler.
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Alfred Jean Garnier
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- 1848 · Puiseaux.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- enameler · painter · printmaker · poet · referendar
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Teachers
- Alexandre Cabanel · Paul Grandhomme
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Portrait of Alfred Garnier by Jules Bastien-Lepage, June 1870 Alfred Jean Garnier (1848–1908) was a French enameller, and pupil and collaborator of Paul Grandhomme. He was born in Puiseaux, Loiret and died in Bazoches, Nièvre. He was a painter, engraver and enameler.
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He was a student of Cabanel and presented at the Salon de Paris in 1874 and 1878. Several of his works are exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay. One of his most famous works is of a man supposed to be the poet Arthur Rimbaud. He was a friend of the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, meeting him at the École des Beaux-Arts, along with Albert Dammouse, holidaying with them in France and Switzerland.
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1848
Alfred Jean Garnier born at Puiseaux.
1921
Alfred Jean Garnier died at 6th arrondissement of Paris.
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- 1.Archives de Paris Acte de décès dressé au 6 arrondissement le 17/03/1921, vue 22 / 31
- 2.Notice d'Alfred Jean Garnier. musée d'Orsay.
- 3.Paul Grandhomme and Jules Brateau. Sotheby's.
- 4.A Private Passion : 19th-century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthop Collection, Harvard University. Yale University Press. 2003. 1-58839-076-4.
- 5.Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Master Sculptor. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1985. 0-87099-437-9.
- 6.Dictionnaire Bénézit.
- 7.Musée d'Orsay: Catalogue des œuvres – Recherche avancée. musée d'Orsay.
- 8.Archives de Paris Acte de mariage dressé au 14 arrondissement,, vue 13 / 31
- 9.« Le portrait présumé de Rimbaud par Garnier » sur lechercheurindependant.blogspot.com.
- 10.Arthur Rimbaud. Welcome Rain Publishers. 2001. 978-1-56649-106-8.
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Formation and teaching. Garnier studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He trained under Alexandre Cabanel and Paul Grandhomme. Recorded as enameler, painter, printmaker, poet and referendar.
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