Félix Thiollier
Illustration — Félix Thiollier (ca. 1900) Félix Thiollier (28 June 1842, Saint Étienne – 12 May 1914, Saint Étienne) was a French industrialist, writer, art collector and photographer. His father, Claude Auguste, was a ribbon maker.
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Félix Thiollier
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- 1842 · Saint-Étienne.
- Died
- 1914 · Saint-Étienne.
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- France
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- photographer · archaeologist · historian · collector · scholar
- Education
- École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Félix Thiollier (ca. 1900) Félix Thiollier (28 June 1842, Saint Étienne – 12 May 1914, Saint Étienne) was a French industrialist, writer, art collector and photographer. His father, Claude Auguste, was a ribbon maker.
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In 1867, he started a ribbon company in Saint Étienne. At age 37, he retired, and pursued his interests in art, archeology, and photography. His photography was influenced by the work of Camille Corot, and he befriended François-Auguste Ravier, Paul Borel, Jean-Paul Laurens, and François Guiguet. In 1870, he married Gabrielle Testenoire-Lafayette. They had five children.
Félix Thiollier studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne. The recorded working language is French. Work by Félix Thiollier is recorded in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art and J. Paul Getty Museum. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
• Illustration — Landscape with Ruin, c. 1870 • Illustration — Notre Dame de Paris, c. 1900 • Illustration — Thiollier's daughter Emma Thiollier, a sculptor and painter, working at Notre Dame (1907).
Vue prise du Couvent des Dominicains, Chalais (Isère), France, c. 1865, by Félix Thiollier
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- 1.État civil Saint-Étienne Naissances. Commune de Saint-Étienne. 1842.
- 2.Dossier de Légion d'honneur de Félix Thiollier.
- 3.Michel Guerrin. Félix Thiollier, paysagiste et « reporter » de la mine. Le Monde. 9 février 1996 lire en.
- 4.Félix Thiollier (1842-1914), photographies. Musée d'Orsay.
- 5.Felix Thiollier, la mine, le monde Parc-Musée de la Mine - Ville de Saint-Étienne. www.musee-mine.saint-etienne.fr.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Itinéraire pittoresque en Forez avec Félix Thiollier. Conseil général de la Loire. 2011.
- Sébastien Mulsant, Un historien du Forez de l’art forézien et de l’art lyonnais. Félix Thiollier, sa vie, ses œuvres (1842-1914), lettre préface de Jean-Paul Laurens, avec gravure en taille douce de F. Guiget et trois phototypes d’après une photographie de F. Thiollier, une peinture de Jean-Paul Laurens et un dessin de E. Thiollier. Saint-Étienne. impr. Théolier-Thomas. 1917, 302 p.
- Christine Boyer Thiollier, Vincent Guichard, in COLLECTIF Félix Thiollier, photographe, 1999, éd. MAM, Saint-Étienne, 264 p.
- Thomas Galifot Conservateur photographie, Musée d'Orsay: catalogue Félix Thiollier, photographies,
- Christine Boyer-Thiollier, De la photographie-tableau, Carnet épistolaire illustré: lettres de François Auguste Ravier à Félix Thiollier, 1873-1895. Éditions MCCBT, 2013. Galerie M. Chomette 24 rue Beaubourg, Paris .
- Christine Boyer Thiollier, in collectif Joseph Déchelette, précurseur de l'archéologie européenne. éditions errance, Acte Sud, 2014.
- Christine Boyer Thiollier, in collectif Alfred Bellet du Poisat, Du romantisme à l'impressionnisme. Musée de Bourgoin-Jallieu, exposition mars- , Éditions Fage, 2014.
- Christine Boyer Thiollier, in Emile Noirot, Artiste peintre, par Dominique Noirot, Thoba's éditions, Roanne, 2015
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