Zakar Zakarian
Illustration — Portrait of Zacharian (circa 1885) by Edgar Degas Zakar Zakarian (1849 – 7 August 1923) was a French painter of Armenian descent.
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Zakar Zakarian
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- Full name
- Զաքար Զաքարեան.
- Born
- 1849. · Constantinople.
- Died
- 1923. · Saint-Léger-de-Montbrun.
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire and France.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Education
- Collège Sainte-Barbe.
- Teachers
- Ferdinand Humbert.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Portrait of Zacharian (circa 1885) by Edgar Degas Zakar Zakarian (1849 – 7 August 1923) was a French painter of Armenian descent.
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Zakar Zakarian studied at Collège Sainte-Barbe. Training under Ferdinand Humbert is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Zakar Zakarian is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Armenia and Musée d'Orsay.
Born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Zakarian received his primary education at a local school. In 1867 he emigrated to Paris to study medicine. After finishing Collège Sainte-Barbe's medical institution, he worked in hospitals. In the 1870s he became a known painter and master of still lifes. Zakarian participated in international exhibitions, was awarded gold medals in 1889 and 1900 and Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1899. He was considered a new Chardin, "without being a Chardin". Edgar Degas, who was Zakarian's friend, painted his portrait in 1886. There are works by Zakarian in the museums of Paris, Yerevan, Echmiatsin, Venice and Beirut. He died in Paris, France, on 7 August 1923 at the age of 74.
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PORTRAIT DE ZACHARIAN
Edgar Degas
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- 1.Fiche exposant Salon 1879, base salons musée d'Orsay.
- 2.Fiche exposant SNBA 1890, base salons musée d'Orsay.
- 3.Frédéric Macler, La France et l'Arménie à travers l'Art et l'Histoire, Paris, Turabian, 1917, (en ligne sur Gallica).
- 4.Portrait de Zacharian sur degas-catalogue.com.
- 5.Notice des peintures, sculptures, dessins, gravures en médailles et sur pierres fines et objets d'art divers de l'école contemporaine, Musée national du Luxembourg, 1893, (en ligne).
- 6.Notice, sur One Arty Minute.
- 7.Le Gaulois, Paris, , (en ligne sur Gallica).
- 8.Catalogue en ligne Սալորներ (1900), GNA.
- 9.Base Joconde 50110000538 .
- 10.Catalogue en ligne LUX 268, RF 527, musée d'Orsay.
- 11.Catalogue en ligne RF 1977 404, LUX 1233, musée d'Orsay.
- 12.Catalogue en ligne RF 1980 186, musée d'Orsay.
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