Edmond Yon

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Edmond Yon -
Etching by Gery Bichard

Edmond Charles Joseph Yon (born March 31, 1841 in Paris ; † March 25, 1897 there ) was a French landscape painter, watercolorist and lithographer .

Life

Edmond Yon was born in Paris in 1841 as the son of the sculptor Charles Yon (1803-1851). Yon studied in Paris under the direction of the lithographer Jean Achille Pouget and the sculptor Justin Lequien (1826–1882) and then worked as a wood cutter and etcher. He cut from his own templates for various magazines such as Le Monde Illustré, L'Illustration, L'Art and made reproductions based on the works of Corot and Millet . But also books, etc. a. Works by Victor Hugo and Paul Verne were illustrated by him.

In 1865 Yon exhibited his works for the first time and then regularly at the Paris Salon . From 1867 Yon turned increasingly to painting and now created atmospheric, lifelike landscapes from the Paris area, but above all bank scenes of the rivers Seine , Oise , Marne and Bièvre . For his works he received gold medals at the Paris Salon in 1875, 1879 and 1889, as well as a gold medal at the World Exhibition in 1889. In 1886 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Edmond Yon died in 1897 shortly before the age of 56. His grave is in the Paris Père Lachaise Cemetery , 16th Division.

Works (selection)

Illustrations / etchings

Edmond Yon: Tableau from L'illustration No. 2510 (1891)

painting

  • Chemin à Velizy (1867)
  • Bras de la Seine (1875, medal)
  • Le Bas de Montigny, Bords de la Marne (1879, medal)
  • Moret-sur-Loing
  • La Rivière d'Eure à Acquigny (1881)
  • Paysage De Rivière
  • Les vaines pâtures à Sainte-Aulde
  • Moulin sur le Morin, Près Sucy-en-Brie (1879)
  • On the banks of the rivière
  • Printemps
  • Le Moulin à eau
  • Échoués Bateaux de pêche à marée basse, Villerville
  • Pont sur une Rivière
  • La Batteuse
  • Le Pont de Vernon, près Vouvray

For an exhibition of Edmond Yon's works in Paris in 1891, a tableau with some of his works on view was shown in the magazine L'illustration : L'Exposition Yon - Choix de tableaux de la vente Edmond Yon (see picture on the right).

literature

Web links

Commons : Edmond Charles Joseph Yon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Edmond Yon, Père-Lachaise grave site  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Date of birth and death according to the information from the grave site of the Père Lachaise cemetery .
    The Bibliothèque nationale de France and Thieme-Becker name: (February 2, 1836 - March 15, 1897)
  2. ^ Paul Leroi: La huitième exposition de la Société d'Aquarellistes Français . In: L'art: revue hebdomadaire illustrée . Paris, December 1886, (part 1), pp. 83 f. (Digitized version of Heidelberg University) (French)
  3. ^ Base Léonore database of the French Ministry of Culture , records of members of the Legion of Honor
  4. Grave site: YON, Edmond Charles see also Commons
  5. The Illustrated Jules Verne 12 illustrations by Edmond Yon
  6. L'Exposition Yon. In: L'Illustration , No. 2510, (49) April 4, 1891 (digitized by Projekt Gutenberg) Note: Wikimedia gives the titles of the individual works