Emile Bayard
Émile-Antoine Bayard (born November 2, 1837 in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre , † December 6, 1891 in Cairo ) was a French illustrator .
life and work
Émile-Antoine Bayard studied between 1853 and 1857 at the École des Beaux-Arts , under the famous painter Léon Cogniet . In addition to his studies, he published humorous drawings in various magazines under the pseudonym Abel de Miray . Bayard later worked mainly on charcoal and watercolor drawings and achieved initial success with woodcuts . In the early 1860s he worked mainly for the journals Journal des Voyages , Les Bibliothèque des Merveilles , Journal pour rire and L'Immortel . Among the documentary drawings and lithographs in which he captures the events of the Franco-Prussian War are the charcoal drawing Sedan from 1870, the portrait of Commandant Franchetti exhibited in the Salon de Paris in 1873 and the triptych Gloria , Victis bought by the French state in 1874 and Après la bataille de Waterloo . With photography, which became increasingly popular towards the end of the 19th century , Bayard's documentary drawings were gradually pushed out of the newspapers and magazines, so that he was almost exclusively an illustrator, including those of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and Harriet Beecher-Stowe's uncle Toms Hut , Jules Vernes From Earth to the Moon and Alphonse Daudets L'Immortel as well as in moral painting .
Web links
- Art Directory: Emile Antoine Bayard
- Emile Bayard (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bayard, Émile |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bayard, Émile-Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Ferté-sous-Jouarre |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1891 |
| Place of death | Cairo |