Misplaced Pages

Paul-Émile Boutigny

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
French painter (1853–1929)
Paul-Émile Boutigny
(mid 1890s). Photograph by
Wilhelm Benque
Henri de La Rochejaquelein at the Second Battle of Cholet (1899)

Paul-Émile Boutigny (French pronunciation: [pɔl emil butiɲi]; 10 March 1853 in Paris – 27 June 1929 in Paris) was a French academist painter who specialized in military subjects.

Life and work

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:

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)

References

  1. ^ Open Library Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs : portraits et biographies suivis d'une notice sur les Salons français depuis 1673, les Sociétés de Beaux-Arts, (1897), p. 71
  2. Base Léonore Ministry of Culture

Further reading

  • Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, Vol. 2. Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3012-5.

External links

Categories:
Paul-Émile Boutigny Add topic