Charles François Pécrus

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Charles François Pécrus (born February 6, 1826 in Limoges , † April 10, 1907 in Paris ) was a French genre, landscape and marine painter.

Pécrus began his career in Paris at Ponts-et-Chaussés (bridge and road construction office), where his supervisor noticed his talent for drawing and encouraged him to study at an art school.

Pécrus studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris with Eugène Fichel . He also visited the Louvre to copy works by old masters.

From 1857 he exhibited interior scenes in the salon of the Société des Artistes Français that brought him success, including “Femmes à la Toilette, Départ pour le Bal”. He met the painters Eugène Boudin , Johan Barthold Jongkind and Alfred Stevens , who encouraged him to paint outdoors. Pécrus joined Boudin in Trouville and discovered Impressionism .

In 1865 his painting "Le jour des nuances" was for the art collection of Napoleon III. shopped.

Pécrus set up his studio at 31 Rue Fontaine, not far from his friend Boudin's studio.

Following Jongkind's advice, Pécrus gradually abandoned genre painting after 1870 and devoted himself more and more to Impressionist landscape and marine painting. But it wasn't until 1885 that he almost completely gave up genre painting.

He painted in Brittany and Normandy , on the Mediterranean , in Holland and in Venice , and in 1890 exhibited his landscape “Cows on the banks of the Allier” in the Salon. In 1892 he exhibited his first marine "Laveuses sur la Touque".

He exhibited in the salon for the last time in 1905 and continued to paint until his death in 1907, despite his dwindling strength.

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SURNAME Pécrus, Charles François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French genre, landscape and marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Limoges
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1907
Place of death Paris