Claude Jules Grenier
Claude Jules Grenier (born July 14, 1817 in Baume-les-Dames , † March 5, 1883 in Paris ) was a French landscape and still life painter . He was the brother of the poet Édouard Grenier .
Life
Grenier was born in Baume-les-Dames in the Doubs department in 1817 . He first studied at the École de dessin Besançon with Antoine Borel , Auguste Charpentier and Charles Antoine Flajoulot , from 1838 at the EcBA Paris with François Edouard Picot . From 1841 studies with Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps and Eugène Delacroix followed, after which he worked in Barbizon with Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña , Louis Français and Constant Troyon , among others . The friendships with the painters Delacroix, Ary Scheffer , Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard , Charles Gleyre , Eugène Fromentin and Camille Corot and the writers Prosper Mérimée , George Sand , Théophile Gautier and Emile Augier also began around this time .
In 1844 Grenier began a long journey, first to the Netherlands, then to Germany, the Pyrenees (1846), England (1849) and Italy (1852/53). Grenier died in Paris in 1883; most of his work went to his brother, the poet Édouard Grenier , and the city of Besançon. In 1884 an exhibition of his remaining works was organized in Paris.
plant
Grenier's oeuvre consists largely of landscapes ( oil sketches , pastels , sepia and pencil drawings ), above all of Franche-Comté , the Paris region and the countries he traveled from 1844 onwards.
literature
- Elmar Stolpe: Grenier, Claude Jules . In: General Artist Lexicon . tape LXI , S. 456 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grenier, Claude Jules |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grenier, Claude-Jules |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baume-les-Dames (Doubs) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1883 |
| Place of death | Paris |