Paul Chenavard
Illustration — Paul Chenavard Etching by Félix Bracquemond Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard (9 December 1808 – 1895) was a French painter.
Also recorded as Paul Marc Joseph Chenavard · Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard · Chenavard
Paul Chenavard
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- Died
- 1895. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris.
- Known for
- Divina Tragedia.
- Honours
- Officer of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Paul Chenavard Etching by Félix Bracquemond Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard (9 December 1808 – 1895) was a French painter.
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Paul Chenavard studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Nicolas Achille Chaine is recorded as having studied under Paul Chenavard. The recorded working language is French. Works named in the authority record are Divina Tragedia. Work by Paul Chenavard is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon and Musée Fabre. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Entering the École des beaux-arts en 1825, he studied in the studio of Ingres alongside his friend Joseph Guichard, then in the studios of Hersent and Delacroix. The influence of German philosophy and painting led him to believe that art's aim had to be humanitarian and civilising. He died in Paris in 1895 and was buried in the new Cimetière de Loyasse at Lyon.
Works
Works
• Illustration — La Palingénésie sociale or La Philosophie de l'histoire. Oil painting. 303 x 380 cm.Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon • Hell (1846), Montpellier, Musée Fabre • The Continence of Scipio (1848) Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts • Divina Tragedia (between 1865 and 1869) Paris, Musée d'Orsay
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Paul Chenavard (1807-1895)
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- 1.After Joseph C. Sloane, "Paul Chenavard", The Art Bulletin, vol 33, n° 4, December 1951, p. 240–258, which notes p. 241, which notes that some sources have him born in 1807.
- 2.Baudelaire, Critique d'art suivi de Critique musicale, édition de C. Pichois, Gallimard, Folio essais, 1992, p. 261.
- 3.Baudelaire, Critique d'art suivi de Critique musicale, édition de C. Pichois, Gallimard, Folio essais, 1992, p. 263.
- 4.« Il sera exécuté dans l'intérieur du Panthéon une suite de peintures murales par le citoyen Paul Chenavard, et sous sa direction, conformément aux projets et aux esquisses qui ont été mises sous les yeux du ministre ». Philippe de Chennevières, Les Décorations du Panthéon, Paris, 1885.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Joseph C. Sloane, Paul Marc Joseph Chenavard: Artist of 1848, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 214 p.
- Théophile Silvestre, Histoire des artistes vivants français et étrangers, Paris, 1856
- Théophile Gautier : description des peintures de Chenavard au Panthéon sur : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k109148c/f4.image.r=.langFR
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