Édouard-Antoine Marsal

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Édouard-Antoine Marsal (born July 4, 1845 in Montpellier , Département Hérault , † 1929 there ) was a French painter.

Life

Marsal came like Guillaume-Charles Brun and Alexandre Cabanel from Montpellier. When he went to Paris to study painting, he did so at the École des Beaux-Arts , where he met Brun and Cabanel again. He later returned to his hometown and established a successful studio there. For a few years Marsal also taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier.

In 1868 Marsal was invited to take part in the great annual exhibition of the Salon de Paris . He did this with great success and was then to be seen at these annual exhibitions until 1888.

Works (selection)

  • Alfred Bruyas in the son cabinet de travail . 1876.
  • Portrait de Mme Rose Azéma . 1923.
  • Portrait de Joseph Vidal . 1914.
  • Portrait de M. Pierre Brun . 1905.
  • Portrait de Rodolphe Faulquier . 1879.
  • Portrait de vieille femme . 1881.
  • La pêche et la chasse . 1897.

literature

  • Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . New edition Grund, Paris 1999ff.
personal data
SURNAME Marsal, Édouard-Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpellier , Hérault department
DATE OF DEATH 1929
Place of death Montpellier , Hérault department