Jules Louis Machard

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Jules Louis Machard (born September 22, 1839 in Sampans , † September 27, 1900 in Meudon ) was a French history and portrait painter .

Life

Machard studied with Émile Signol (1804-1892) and Ernest Hébert at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1865 he was awarded the Prix ​​de Rome for his painting "Orpheus in the Underworld". The prize was combined with a scholarship and a longer study visit to the Villa Medici in Rome. His painting "Angélique attachée au rocher" was exhibited in the 1869 Salon .

Tomb

Jules Louis Machard is buried in Meudon on the Cimetière des Longs Réages . The representative tomb made of white marble with various allegorical figures, including an allegory of painting and a medallion with the portrait of Machard, is the work of 1904 by his uncle, the sculptor Gustave Crauk.

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Young woman in evening dress with hydrangeas, 1886

In addition to large-format oil paintings and portraits in oil and pastel, Marchard also left numerous drawings. Marchard, whose mythological pictures show the first signs of symbolism , was an excellent portrait painter. In addition to children, he mainly portrayed the sophisticated ladies of the Belle Époque of France in their lavish evening wear, in which he captured fabrics, jewelry, furs, hair and the sensuality of the flesh with painterly sophistication and color brilliance. He is famous in literature for his portrait of a “young woman in an evening dress with hydrangeas”, which is the subject of discussion in the Verdurin Circle in the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time .

Machard's paintings are now in museums in Dole, Besançon, Strasbourg, Chartres and Rouen.

Awards

Works (selection)

Portraits
  • Portrait of Mrs. Gilbert Farquhuar Davidson. Oil on ln, 1873, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
  • Portrait of the Comtesse Duhesme . Oil on canvas, 1883. Musée national du château de Compiègne
  • Young woman in evening dress with hydrangeas . Private collection. 1896.
  • Portrait of a girl with a bouquet of red and yellow roses . Oil on ln, 1896
  • Portrait of a lady with a pearl necklace. Pastel.
History pictures
  • Orpheus in the underworld . Ol uf Ln, 1845
  • Narcissus ,
  • Selene , oil on ln, 1879
  • Naked with Faun , oil on ln, Rome, 1868
    Naked with Faun, oil on ln, Rome, 1868

Exhibitions

  • Jules Machard (1839-1900) ou le culte de la ligne. Exhibition at the Musée des beaux-arts in Dole. 2003. Catalog. ISBN 2-910598-14-4 [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orphée aux Enfers , culture.gouv.fr
  2. ^ Meudon (92): cimetière des Longs Réages ; Maquette pour le tombeau de Jules Machard, neveu de l'artiste (1901), Europeana  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.europeana.eu  
  3. ↑ Eric Karpeles: Marcel Proust and the paintings from the lost time. Cologne 2010. pp. 72–73 .; Illustration
personal data
SURNAME Machard, Jules Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French history and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Sampans
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1900
Place of death Meudon