Marcel Baschet

Marcel Baschet studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris, Académie Julian and French Academy in Rome. Training under Jules Lefebvre is recorded. Geneviève Bouts Réal del Sarte, Pierre Gourdault and Frederic Fiebig are recorded as having studied under Marcel Baschet. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Works named in the authority record are Alexandre Millerand and Claude Debussy. Work by Marcel Baschet is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay, Musée Carnavalet, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Louvre Museum and Palace of Versailles. Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Legion of Honour and Prix de Rome for painting.

He was born in Gagny (Seine-et-Oise), the second son of the art editor Ludovic Baschet, editor of Panorama and the Revue illustrée. His brother René was the art critic for Salonsavant, and was editor of the magazine L'Illustration from 1904 to the first half of the 20th century. At 17, Marcel entered the Académie Julian in the studio of Jules Lefebvre. A student at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in the studio of Gustave Boulanger, in 1883 he won the Grand Prix de Rome for painting for Oedipus curses his son Polynices, and became a pensionist at the Villa Médicis in Rome from 1883 to 1887. On 3 January 1888, he married Jeanne Guillemeteau, and they had two children, one son and one daughter. He became a teacher at the Académie Julian in 1889. From 1900, he spent a number of years as a teacher to Princess Mathilde. From 1907 to 1941, he had a shop at 21 Quai Voltaire in Paris, where a commemorative plaque was placed after his death. He won the médaille d'honneur in 1908 for his portrait of Henri Rochefort, and his portrait of Claude Debussy was exhibited around the world. He was awarded the Knight of the Légion d'honneur in 1898, and then in 1913, he was elected a member of the Académie des beaux-arts. His works are held in a number of private collections and museums, including the Musée d'Orsay and Château de Versailles. His younger brother Jacques (1872–1952) was a historian, art critic, artistic director, and editor of the magazine L'Illustration, and director of a national company.

(incomplete list)

• Le Salon de Peinture, portrait of Melle Louise Lyman

• 1908 - Salon des Artistes Français: Médaille d'Honneur

• Musée de l'Armée • Musée du Château de Versailles • Musée d'Orsay

Marcel Baschet is recorded as painter.

• Illustration — Oedipus curses his son Polynices, awarded the 1883 Grand Prix de Rome • Illustration — Ambroise Thomas (1896) • Illustration — Claude Debussy (1884) • Claude Debussy, 1884, oil on panel, 24.5 x 21.5 cm, Musée d'Orsay • M. Vendryès, 1892 • Ambroise Thomas, portrait presented at the exhibition of the Salon des artistes français in 1895, published in L'Artiste, November 1896 • Henri Brisson, 1896 • Mrs Gabriel Pierné, wife of the composer, 1897, presented in competition at the Salon des artistes français in 1898 • Charles Pardinel, 1898 • Portrait of family, 1899, oil on canvas, presented in competition at the Salon des artistes français • Comtesse de Bourbon-Ligniéres, 1900 • Mrs Delacroix, 1900 • René Baschet, 1901 • Armande Fajard, 1901 • Pierre Baschet, 1901 • Jérôme Doucet • Mrs René Baschet, 1905 • Jules Lefebvre, 1905 • Roger Baschet, 1907 • Ludovic Baschet, 1907 • Henri Lavedan, 1907 • Mrs Georges Leygues, 1907 • Henri Rochefort, 1908 • Louise Weiss, 1909 • Jean Richepin, 1910 • Count of Gramont, 1910 • Countess Pillet-Will, 1910 • Count of Bourbon-Lignières, 1910 • Miss Cocteau, 1910 • Seydoux boys, 1910 • Marquis de Dion, 1911 • Raymond Poincaré, 1913 • Suzanne Fajard, 1915 • Mrs Lyautey, 1915 • Aristide Briand, 1917 • Général Gouraud, 1919 • Maréchal Foch, 1919, pastel on paper, 57 x 42 cm, Musée de l'Armée • Duke of Mortemart, 1919 • Miss Michelin, 1920 • Alexandre Millerand, 1922 • Gaston Doumergue, 1926, oil on canvas, 122 x 95 cm, Musée du Château de Versailles • Philippe Pétain, 1926 • The Maharajah of Kapurthala, 1927 • Maréchal Fayolle, 1927 • Duchess of Brissac, 1927 • Mr and Mrs Schlumberger, 1928 • Marquis of Juigné, 1929 • Marquis of Vogüé, 1929 • Baron von Zuylen, 1929 • Duke of Broglie, 1930 • Général Weygand, 1930 • Maurice de Broglie, 1932 • Paul Doumer, 1932, oil on canvas, 137 x 101 cm, Musée du Château de Versailles • Albert Lebrun, 1934, oil on canvas, 129 x 104 cm, Musée du Château de Versailles • Fadri Aga Khan, 1934 • Mrs Roger Couvelaire, 1930 • Baron of Turckeim, 1938 • Édouard Branly, 1939

• Drogues et Peinture 24 illustrations by the artist, édition Laboratoire pharmaceutique Chantereau à Paris, Album d'Art Contemporain, n° 54, s. d., v. 1937