Adolphe-Félix Cals

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Adolphe-Félix Cals (born October 17, 1810 in Paris , † October 3, 1880 in Honfleur ) was a French painter and engraver.

Adolphe-Félix Cals began his apprenticeship in 1822 with the engraver Jean-Louis Anselin , who died six months later. Cals continued his apprenticeship in 1823 with Nicolas Ponce and finally with Jean Bosq .

In 1828 he began studying painting at the École des beaux-arts de Paris with Léon Cogniet . He then went on study trips through France.

From 1835 he exhibited his portraits and landscapes regularly in the Salon de Paris . Before 1841 he married Ermance Canelle Provisy, whom he had met in Léon Cogniet's studio. They became parents of a daughter Marie.

From 1845 to 1859 he had a studio in Montmartre. The art dealer from Rue Laffitte, Pierre-Firmin Martin took over the sale of his pictures. He introduced him to the art collector Count Armand Doria , who invited him to his castle in Orrouy, where Cals spent the years 1858 to 1869.

From 1869 to 1870 he painted landscapes of Valois, interiors, studies of women and portraits acquired from the friends of Count Doria.

Johan Barthold Jongkind's friends collected the money that enabled Cals to bring the Dutch painter to Paris to cure him from a deep alcoholism. From 1868 to 1870 Jongkind exhibited in the salon.

In 1863 he exhibited together with Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro in the “Salon des refusés” (Salon of the Rejected).

In 1871 he bought a house in the Honfleur artists' colony, but kept his Parisian apartment.

In 1879 he took part in the exhibition of the "Intransigeants" (the uncompromising) together with Edgar Degas , Claude Monet , Camille Pissarro , Jean-Louis Forain and Henri Rouart .

At the invitation of Monet, he took part in the first exhibition of Impressionist painters from 1874, then from 1876 to 1880.

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SURNAME Cals, Adolphe-Félix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1880
Place of death Honfleur