Jules-Charles Aviat

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Jules-Charles Aviat
Portrait of Adelina Patti 1887

Jules-Charles Aviat (originally Jules-Charles Mauperrin , born June 26, 1844 in Brienne-le-Château ( Aube ), † January 23, 1931 in Périgueux ( Dordogne )) was a French portrait and landscape painter.

Jules-Charles Mauperrin was born as the son of the merchant Jean Baptiste Mauperrin and Marie Marguerite Doux. After the death of his father on January 6, 1854, his mother remarried Pierre Antoine Aviat, inspector at the Paris railroad company in Orleans, Pierre Aviat gave Jules-Charles his name, which has been called Jules-Charles Mauperrin Aviat since then.

The younger brother of his stepfather, Auguste Louis Aviat (1819–1876), was a landscape painter, draftsman and photographer. He discovered the talent of Jules-Charles. From 1867 to 1870 Jules Aviat studied at the Académie de France à Rome with Ernest Hébert . Back in France, Jules Aviat was a student of Jules Isidore Lafrance , Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran and Léon Bonnat . With these three painters, as well as with Ernest Hébert and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , Aviat participated in the decoration of the Pantheon in Paris .

Jules Aviat married Marguerite Françoise Flora Munoz in Paris on May 29, 1875, daughter of a Parisian psychiatrist of Havanese origin. They had five children.

In May 1905 Aviat met Samuel Thurston Ballard from Louisville at the Salon de Paris , who invited him to the United States . From December 9, 1905, Aviat traveled to the United States on the SS Bretagne passenger steamer. In Louisville, he portrayed his host's family and friends. In April 1906 he made a trip through the United States and came to New York in early 1907 . In February 1907 he returned to France.

Towards the end of his life, Jules Aviat retired to Périgueux, where he continued to paint the personalities of the region and the green landscapes of the Périgord. The Perigord Museum of Art and Archeology in Perigueux keeps many of his works.

He died on January 23, 1931 in Périgueux and is buried in the northern cemetery of that city.

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SURNAME Aviat, Jules-Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mauperrin, Jules-Charles (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French portrait and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Brienne-le-Château
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1931
Place of death Périgueux