Eugène Murer
Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier (14 May 184122 April 1906), known as Eugène Murer, was a pastry chef, author, self-taught painter and collector of impressionist paintings. He was born in Poitiers on 14 May 1846. He was a childhood friend of Armand Guillaumin, who introduced him to the impressionists.
Also recorded as Eugene Murer · Eugène Auguste Meunier · Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier
Eugène Murer
G. van Muysen · Joseph Uzanne, Figures contemporaines tirées de l’Album Mariani, Librairie Henri Floury, Paris, vol IV, 1899. · Public domain
- Name
- Eugène Murer
- Birth Name
- Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier
- Died
- 22 April 1906
- Place of death
- Auvers-sur-Oise
- Movement
- Impressionism
- Full name
- Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · draftsperson · writer · artist · critic · art historian · collector
- Fields
- landscape · animal art · genre
- Languages
- French
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He was an apprentice pastry chef in Grû at 8 Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre and 125 Faubourg Poissonnière. He ran a patisserie at 95 Boulevard Voltaire, where he invited, for "Tuesday-dinner", young artists, collectors, and established artists. Renoir, Sisley, Monet, Cézanne, Gachet, Vincent and Theo Van Gogh, Père Tanguy, art dealers Louis Legrand and Alphonse Portier, Goeneutte, Guillaumin, Vignon, Pierre Franc-Lamy, and Pissarro were among his guests. British art historian Colin B. Bailey notes that Murer's diary from this time contains a sad entry about the suicide of Vincent van Gogh that demands further study. He died in Auvers-sur-Oise, where he was a neighbour of Gachet, on 22 April 1906. He lived on 39 rue Victor Massé, Paris, above a carpenter and art supply dealer called Michel, where he bought his paints. The Musée d'Orsay owns one of his paintings, L'Oise at Isle-Adam, from 1903.
Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, 1841–1906) MET DT1882
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• Name — Eugène Murer • Birth Name — Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier • Died — 22 April 1906 • Place of death — Auvers-sur-Oise • Movement — Impressionism
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• Illustration — Portrait of Eugène Murer, Camille Pissarro, 1878 • Illustration — Camille Pissarro, Eugène Murer at his pastry oven, 1877. • Illustration — Eugène Murer, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1877
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