Louis Français
François-Louis Français (born November 17, 1814 in Plombières-les-Bains , † May 28, 1897 in Paris ) was a French painter .
Life
Français joined a bookseller in Paris in the doctrine, then earned his living by drawing from vignettes for the woodcut and made a name for himself as a lithographer . He then made art studies under Jean-François Gigoux and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and exhibited his first landscape painted in partnership with Henri Baron at the Paris Salon of 1847 .
Other pictures of him are: Park of St. Cloud , with figures by Meissonier, sunset in Italy (Galerie des Luxembourg), surroundings of Rome (1853), A footpath in the field (1855). In the Salon of 1861 appeared: View at Bas-Meudon ; 1863: Orpheus at the grave of Eurydice (in Luxembourg); 1864: The sacred grove , Italian villa ; 1865: New excavations of Pompeii ; 1866: environs of Rome, environs of Paris ; 1868: The Grumternte , Das Münsterthal ; 1869: The Montblanc ; 1872: Motif from the valley of Sennheim , Daphnis and Chloe (Luxembourg), memory of Nice .
Français knew very well how to carry out simple motifs with good drawing and true coloring, but at the same time loved a certain ideal trait that is not common among the modern French; his Italian landscapes used to be accentuated by appropriate stylization that was not lacking in natural truth. His striving was to combine the romantic with the stylizing conception of nature, although he occasionally fell into academic coldness.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Français, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Français, François-Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plombières-les-Bains |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1897 |
| Place of death | Paris |