Paul-Émile Boutigny

Paul-Émile Boutigny studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Hugo Backmansson is recorded as having studied under Paul-Émile Boutigny. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Work by Paul-Émile Boutigny is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Cholet, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne and Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

His father was a tailor and his mother worked as a seamstress. Following the Franco-Prussian War, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Cabanel and developed a unique style of battle painting, drawn from personal experience. He was a regular participant in the Salon after 1880. He was decorated with the Légion d'honneur in 1898. That same year, he began producing the satirical, artistic and literary journal Cocorico, which promoted Art Nouveau. He illustrated several works: • Chants du Soldat, a popular collection of patriotic poems by Paul Déroulède. Calmann Lévy, Paris 1881 • Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant, Calmann Lévy, Paris 1899 • Les Héros de France (Hoche, Marceau and Desaix) by Théodore Cahu, SDL, Paris 1900 • L'attaque du Moulin by Émile Zola, from the anthology Les Soirées de Médan, Collection des Dix, Paris 1901 Some of his most familiar paintings include: • An Episode from the Quiberon Affair (1881). Musée des Beaux-Arts et Arts Décoratifs de Mirande • The Seventh Line to Attack Malakoff and the Death of Captain Pagès (1887). Hall of Honor of the Seventh Infantry Regiment. • Napoléon – The Battle of Aspern-Essling – Death of Jean Lannes, Marshall of the Empire (1894) • Napoléon Bonaparte – The Revolt at Pavia (1895)