Léonce Vaÿsse
Léonce Vaÿsse , also Marie Léonce Vaÿsse or Léonce Vaijsse (born January 8, 1844 in Maligny , † January 19, 1917 in Paris ) was a French painter .
Life
Léonce Vaÿsse was born in 1844 in the small village of Maligny near Auxerre in the Yonne department, the son of a doctor who died early. After leaving school, he took up the profession of businessman, and in his free time he devoted himself to painting. He first became a pupil of the landscape painter Louis-Hector Pron , later of the genre painter, portraitist and landscape painter Pierre Alexandre Jeanniot , whose daughter Marguerite Valentine he later married.
In 1881 he was represented for the first time with a painting in the Salon des Artistes Français . This first painting, Une Route en Champagne , is now in the collection of the Musée Paul Dubois-Alfred Boucher in Nogent-sur-Seine . From this point on he appeared in various exhibitions at irregular intervals through paintings such as Matinée d'Avril (1883), Matinée d'Aout (1884), Matinée de Juin (1886), Paysage d'Octobre (1887) and Coin de Tannerie (1889 ) in appearance.
When a dispute arose within the Société des Artistes Français in 1890 about the promotion of young, unknown artists, Vaÿsse joined the group of well-known artists such as Ernest Meissonier , Puvis de Chavannes and Auguste Rodin , who left the SAF and founded their own artists' association.
The Société nationale des beaux-arts , as the association called itself and was a registered member of the Vaÿsse from 1892, also organized an annual exhibition from 1891, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts , in which Vaÿsse again produced several works was present:
Les Ruines du Chateau de Chinon (1891), Un Coteau à Chinon and Nuit de Juin (1892), Clair de lune (1893), Paysage de Décembre (1894), Paysage de Champagne , Avant l'orage , Nuit tombante , Paysage de Novembre and Nuit d'Été (1895), Heure indécise , Paysage de Champagne , Nuit de Juin , Paysage de Novembre and Sous bois (1896), Le Clos Gaston Doré , La Lisière du parc de Blives , La Chaumière champenoise and Nuit d ' Octobre (1897), Paysage d'Avril , Ruine du château des évéques à Chavigny , Souvenir d'etretat and Chemin de traverse (1898).
In addition to the above-mentioned exhibitions, Vaÿsse was represented at the world exhibitions in Paris, Antwerp and Brussels, as well as several annual exhibitions of the artists of Franche-Comté and the Société Artistique de l'Aube .
Other important works by Vaÿsse, which were never exhibited in Paris, are:
L'Allée des Veuves (in the Musée du Mans), Prairie à Vesoul , Les Bords de la Colombine , Les Bords du Durgeon , Effet de Neige , L'Averse , une Saulaie , Navettes en Fleurs , une Route , Souvenir de Chinon and Mulins d'Enfer .
In the composition of his pictures one recognizes in Vaÿsse a representative of the French impressionism . The light effects in his paintings, caused by cloudy skies of varying degrees, the shadow outlines of buildings, trees and haystacks, as well as the depiction of the sunlight at different times of the day and year are reminiscent of Alfred Sisley or Claude Monet, who was only four years older .
Since some of Léonce Vaÿsse's paintings are in private collections and no catalog of his works has yet been compiled, based on the sources available, it can be assumed that Vaÿsse had made around 45 to 50 paintings by his death in 1917.
Works (selection)
- Un Route en Champagne (Musée Paul Dubois-Alfred Boucher, Nogent-sur-Seine), circa 1880
- Paysage de Champagne (Musée de Langres), 1899, 81 cm × 100 cm, oil on canvas
- Matinée de Décembre à Savières (Musée de Troyes), 1906, 65 cm × 81.5 cm, oil on canvas
- La nuit à l'île de Batz (Musee de Troyes), 1907, 65 cm × 80 cm, oil on canvas
- Ferme en Corrèze (private collection), circa 1880/1890, 40 cm × 61 cm, oil on panel
literature
- Musée Paul Dubois-Alfred Boucher: Léonce Vaÿsse, 1844-1917. "Paysages de Champagne et de Bretagne"; Exposition du 5 juin au 20 septembre 1998 . Musée Paul Dubois-Alfred Boucher, Nogent-sur-Seine 1998
- Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes français et étrangers. Nouvelle Édition. Tome 14: Valentin - Zyw . Éditions Gründ, Paris 1999 ( digitized version of the 1924 edition )
- Curinier: Dictionnaire National des Contemporains, contenant les Notices des Membres de l'Institut de France, du Gouvernement et du Parlement français, de l'Academie de Médécine et de toutes les Personalités vivantes, françaises ou demeurant en France, qui sont fait connaitre par leur Action dans les Lettres, les Sciences, les Arts, la Politique, l'Armée, les Cultes, l'Industrie, l'Administration, etc. Tome premier . Office Général d'Édition de Librairie & d'Imprimerie, Paris [1899] ( digitized on BnF Gallica )
- Harambourg: Dictionnaire des peitres paysagistes français au XIXe siècle . Editions Ides et Calendes, Neuchatel 1985
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vaÿsse, Léonce |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vaÿsse, Marie Léonce (full name); Vaijsse, Léonce |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maligny |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1917 |
| Place of death | Paris |