Antoine Guillemet

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Antoine Guillemet, around 1897
Antoine Guillemet

Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet (born June 30, 1841 in Chantilly , † 1918 in the Dordogne department ) was a French landscape painter in the style of Impressionism .

Life

Édouard Manet: The balcony . Antoine Guillemet in the background

Guillemet's career began in 1859 when he was commissioned to paint a copy of Géricault's famous painting , The Raft of Medusa . Berthe Morisot introduced the young Guillemet to Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot in 1861 . This acquaintance gave him the opportunity to meet numerous avant-garde painters , such as Édouard Manet , Camille Pissarro , Alfred Stevens , Claude Monet and Gustave Courbet .

He was an impressionist from around 1872 after naturalistic beginnings. For a long time he was friends with the writer Zola , who saw in him “le génie attendu”, the expected genius. Zola was inspired by him to write his painter novel L'Œuvre ( The Work ).

Le port de Barfleur , undated

Since he was successful and was honored (Knight of the Legion of Honor 1880; Officier 1896; Commandeur 1910), “he helped Monet and supported Paul Cézanne . The inclusion of the only painting by Cézanne ever to be exhibited in the Salon in Paris was made following his intervention when he was a member of the jury in 1882. "

From 1881 Guillemet visited the landscapes of the Cotentin in Normandy and especially the Val de Saire , which inspired him to paint numerous paintings within nine years.

Édouard Manet portrayed Antoine Guillemet in his famous painting The Balcony .

literature

  • Peter Mitchell: Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet, 1841-1918 . Hacker Art Books, New York 1983, ISBN 0-83-900303-X
  • Un amateur d'art anglais à la recherche des œuvres cotentines d'Antoine Guillemet , La Presse de la Manche , 29 December 2006

Web links

Commons : Antoine Guillemet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The years of birth are also given as 1843 and 1842.
  2. ^ Brigitte Scart, Regards de peintres en Cotentin: XIXe - XXe siècle , Association festival en Cotentin, 1993.
personal data
SURNAME Guillemet, Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guillemet, Jean Baptiste Antoine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Chantilly
DATE OF DEATH 1918
Place of death Dordogne department