Henry d'Estienne

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Henry d'Estienne (born August 1, 1872 in Conques-sur-Orbiel ( Département Aude ), † March 11, 1949 in Paris ), was a French painter.

Arab girl carrying flatbread

Born as Henri-Claude Etienne, son of François Etienne, a cabinetmaker, sculptor and director of the school of sculpture and Marie Julie Joséphine Guyot, he took the noble stage name "Henri d'Estienne" until 1898 as participants in the salons of the Société des Artistes Français at .

Henry d'Estienne attended the Lycée in Carcassonne, then in Montpellier, came to Paris in 1887, attended the École des arts decoratifs and the École des Gobelins and studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris until 1898 under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Joseph Blanc .

He made his debut in 1898 at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français. His “Portrait of the Grandmother” was bought by the French state in 1899.

For the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 he was commissioned by the Colonial Ministry for two paintings in the second room of the pavilion on the Somali coast and received a bronze medal for them.

Henry d'Estienne married Marie-Angélique Tirefort on June 28, 1900.

Thanks to the grant from the Ministry of Public Education and Fine Arts, he went on a one-year study trip. He visited Venice , then Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia , Sicily and Spain . At that time he devoted himself to orientalism. He then visited the countries of the Orient several times.

The artist also visited Brittany many times from 1903, where he was mainly active in Faouët and Ouessant . In addition to genre and landscape paintings, he also painted portraits.

His art earned him several awards.

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