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René Le Bègue (9 September 1856 – 15 May 1914) was a French photographer and one of the leading figures of Pictorialism in France.

Early life and education

René Frédéric Alfred Le Bègue was born in Paris, France on 9 September 1856.

Career

Beginning in 1880, René Le Bègue embraced a profession of photography, becoming a leading representative of French Pictorialism. Le Bègue was an early member of the Photo-Club de Paris.

Along with Constant Puyo, Robert Demachy, and Maurice Bucquet, he helped organize the Paris Photo-Club's first Exposition d'Art Photographique held in January 1894. That year, he began to exhibit regularly at the exhibitions of the Photo-Club de Paris. He submitted 14 pictures to the 1894 Paris exhibition.

Le Bègue was one of the first French members to be admitted into London's Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, a British photographic society. His work was accepted for the second annual Photographic Salon of the Linked Ring in 1894 at the Dudley Gallery in London. Four of his photographs were exhibited, with a price tag of ten to fifteen shillings each, except "Le Boquet," which was priced at one pound. He achieved notable acclaim at foreign exhibitions. In 1895, Le Bègue exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society's 40th Annual Exhibition at The Gallery in Pall Mall, London. Joseph Gleeson White, the English writer, documented that Le Bégue sent various artworks of his posed and draped models, namely L' Attente, Fleurs d'Orient, Surprise, Etude en Plein Air, and Etude de Nu.

Le Bègue, engaging in photographic nude studies, became widely recognized for his expertise in photographing the human figure, whether it was unclothed or adorned. The Photogram described Le Bègue as a "lover of feminine gracefulness". In 1896, Douze petites études de Femmes, a series of twelve photogravures by Le Bègue, was published by the Journal des artistes based on 33 rue du Dragon in Paris. These images, carefully executed in photogravure, captured the distinct stages of his style's development.

In 1898, he exhibited his photographs at the 5th International Exhibition of Artistic Photography in Hamburg, in company with other representatives from the Paris Photo Club.

Le Bègue shared a studio with his nephew and French photographer Paul Bergon. In 1898, Le Bègue and Bergon published Le Nu et le Drapé en Plein Air.

In the early 1900s, his photographs were reproduced in American photographer Alfred Stieglitz's photographic journal Camera Work.

The Parisian photographer exhibited six photos at the fourth Philadelphia Photographic Salon organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Photographic Society of Philadelphia in 1901.

He began employing the Gum bichromate process for his prints by 1902. In around 1904, he assembled about fifty studies of women for an exhibition at the Otto gallery on 15 rue Royale.

Death

René Le Bègue died in 1914 in Paris, France.

Works

• Fantaisie
• At the Margin of the Brook
• Bouquet de Grève
• Sea Breeze (from Douze petites études de Femmes)

Gallery

• Photos by René Le Bègue
• Académie (1902)
• Nasse Füße (1905)
• Versunkenheit (1905)
• Etude de Nu (1904)
• Méditation (1900)

References

1. ^ René Le Bègue (22401) | Musée d’Orsay. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/ressources/repertoire-artistes-personnalites/rene-le-begue-22401
2. ^ René Le Bègue | | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1903). Retrieved from https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/269345
3. Browne, T., Partnow, E. (1983). Macmillan biographical encyclopedia of photographic artists & innovators (p. 495). London: Macmillan.
4. Naef, W. J. (1978). The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography (p. 32). United Kingdom: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
5. Naef, W. J. (1978). The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography (p. 41-42). United Kingdom: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
6. ^ Die Kunst für Alle. (1898). Germany: F. Bruckmann.
7. Photograms of the Year (p. 63). (1895). United Kingdom: Iliffe & Sons Limited.
8. Le Photogramme. (1901). France: École pratique de photographie, C. Klary..
9. Photogram, Volume 3 : Center for Photographic Studies (Louisville, Ky.) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. (2009, December 30). Retrieved from https://archive.org/stream/photogramvolume00kygoog/photogramvolume00kygoog_djvu.txthttps://archive.org/stream/photogramvolume00kygoog/photogramvolume00kygoog_djvu.txt
10. Bulletin. (1898). Belgium: Association.
11. Doy, G. (2001). Drapery: Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture (p. 51). Iran: Bloomsbury Publishing.
12. The American Amateur Photographer (p. 543). (1901). United States: American Photographic Publishing Company.
13. Le Bulletin de l'Art Ancien et Moderne. (1904). France: (n.p.).
14. Photo-era (p. 208). (1901). United States: New England Photo Era Publishing Company.
15. The Photographic News: A Weekly Record of the Progress of Photography (p. 280). (1901). United Kingdom: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.
16. Image. (1984). United States: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.

External links

[REDACTED] Media related to René Le Bègue (photographer) at Wikimedia Commons

• 1856 births
• 1912 deaths
• People from Paris
• French photographers
• 19th-century French photographers
• 19th-century photographers