Eugène Pluchart

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Eugène Pluchart: self-portrait
Eugène Pluchart: Olga Sergejewna Pavlishcheva

Eugène Pluchart (Russian Евгений Александрович Плюшар , Evgenij Alexandrowitsch Pluchart , * around 1809 in St. Petersburg , † after 1880 in Dresden ) was a Russian painter and photographer of French origin.

He was the son of the printer Alexandre Pluchart (1777–1827), who worked in Russia since 1805, and his German wife Sophie Wagner (1782–1857). He was the younger brother of the publisher Adolphe Pluchart (1806-1865).

Pluchart studied from 1825 at the École des beaux-arts in Paris with Louis Hersent , in Italy and from December 19, 1828 to 1832 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich . Then he returned to Russia. He lived in Moscow from 1840 to 1842 and then again in St. Petersburg.

Eugène Pluchart painted many portraits of Russian celebrities such as Pushkin's sister Olga Sergejewna Pavlishcheva , as well as of personalities who visited Russia, such as the French opera singer Pauline Viardot-Garcia , the Polish composer and violinist Karol Lipiński and the French architect Auguste de Montferrand . He also created a number of paintings in St. Isaac's Cathedral after 1843 .

Since 1839 he was a full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in the category of portraiture.

In the 1850s he opened a photo studio in St. Petersburg. He left Russia in 1860 or 1862 and went to Dresden, where he spent the last years of his life.

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SURNAME Pluchart, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Плюшар, Евгений Александрович; Pluchart, Yevgeny Alexandrovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter and photographer of French origin
DATE OF BIRTH around 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1880
Place of death Dresden