Auguste Gendron
Illustration — Photograph of Gendron by Robert Jefferson Bingham • Illustration — Victims to the Minotaur, print after a painting by Gendron Auguste Gendron, also known as Ernest Augustin Gendron (17 March 1817 – 12 July 1881) was a French painter. Auguste Gendron was born in Paris in 1817, he learned painting under Paul Delaroche. Gendron painted mainly mythological subjects in an academic style, and exhibited at the Salon in Paris for many years.
Also recorded as Ernest Augustin Gendron
Auguste Gendron
Robert Jefferson Bingham · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
- Born
- 1817. · Paris.
- Died
- 1881. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- history.
- Teachers
- Paul Delaroche.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Photograph of Gendron by Robert Jefferson Bingham • Illustration — Victims to the Minotaur, print after a painting by Gendron Auguste Gendron, also known as Ernest Augustin Gendron (17 March 1817 – 12 July 1881) was a French painter. Auguste Gendron was born in Paris in 1817, he learned painting under Paul Delaroche. Gendron painted mainly mythological subjects in an academic style, and exhibited at the Salon in Paris for many years.
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Auguste Gendron is classed in the genre history painting. Recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded as a citizen of France.
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1817
Auguste Gendron was born on 17 March 1817.
1881
Auguste Gendron died on 11 July 1881.
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Between 1844 and 1847, he travelled in Italy with Delaroche and the younger painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. He won multiple medals at the Salon. In 1855 he was made a Knight in the Legion of Honour. A series of 12 panels, commissioned for the Palais d'Orsay, was lost after the building was demolished. Other paintings were commissioned for the State Ministry in Saint-Cloud, and for the Saint Catherine chapel in the St-Gervais-et-St-Protais church.
Training under Paul Delaroche is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Work by Auguste Gendron is recorded in the collections of Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Dahesh Museum of Art, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris and Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Brieuc. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Works by Gendron can be found in many collections, including the Louvre, the Museum of modern art André Malraux - MuMa, the Museum of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, and the Dahesh Museum of Art.
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- 1.Un tableau peint à cette époque par Johann Ludwig Rudolph Durheim (1811-1898), artiste originaire de Bâle, les représente tous les trois.
- 2.Pastels littéraires : Auguste Gendron, 170-171, L'artiste, Tome VIII, 1859, Paris
- 3.Le cimetière du Père Lachaise. S. Mercadier. 1908.
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Auguste Gendron received Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Dahesh Museum of Art and Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
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