Marcel Baschet

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Marcel-André Baschet (born August 5, 1862 in Gagny ( Département Seine-et-Oise ); † December 28, 1941 in Paris ) was a French portrait painter and illustrator .

Life

Marcel Baschet was born in 1862 as the second son of the art editor Ludovic Baschet (1834–1909) and his wife Julie Antoinette Elise, b. Vendryes (1837-1892).

He began his training in Paris in 1879 at the Académie Julian with Jules Lefebvre . Then he was at the École des Beaux Arts with Gustave Boulanger . For his picture Oedipus condemned Polynices he received the Grand Prix de Rome in 1883 . This scholarship enabled him to stay at the French Academy in Rome in the Villa Medici from 1884 to 1887 .

Baschet became a teacher at the Académie Julian in 1889. For his portrait of the writer Henri Rochefort , he won the medal d'honneur in the Salon des Artistes Francais in 1908 . In 1898 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor (Légion d'honneur), and in 1913 a Commander. In 1913 he was also elected a member of the Institut de France and the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Chair 6 of Section (I) for Painting).

From 1907 to 1941, Baschet had his studio at 21, Quai Voltaire in the 7th arrondissement , a plaque commemorates this.

family

Marcel Baschet was married to Jeanne Guillemeteau from 1888, they had the son Paul Baschet (1888–1966) and a daughter. Baschet himself had three siblings; the brothers René Baschet (1860–1949), director of the magazine L'Illustration from 1904 to 1944, and Jacques Baschet (1872–1952), art historians and sister Andrée Baschet (1875–1950). In addition to his work as an art editor, his father Ludovic Baschet (1834–1909) was also a painter, gallery owner and editor of the magazines Panorama and La Revue Illustrée .

Works (selection)

Oedipus condemns Polynices , 1883
Claude Debussy , 1884

painting

  • Œdipe condamne Polynice , 1883, (l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris)
  • Family Reunion at the Home of Madame Adolphe Brisson , 1893, oil on canvas, 212 × 238 cm, ( Musée national du château de Versailles )
  • Ma famille ou Portrait de famille , 1898, oil on canvas, 309 × 247 cm (Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers)

Portraits

Student (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Marcel Baschet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of teachers and students at the Académie Julian - Marcel Baschet
  2. ↑ Periodo: 1884–1887 Villa Medici, Académie de France
  3. ↑ List of chronologique arrivées et des séjours of pensionnaires à l'French Academy in Rome de 1666 à 1969 . In: Dictionnaire biographique des pensionnaires de l'Académie de France à Rome: Annexe III . S. 490 f . ( Online ).
  4. ^ Les Académiciens de 1795 à nos jours : Members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
  5. ↑ Le Quai Voltaire in the paristoric.com portal
  6. ↑ Illustration in the bridgemanimages portal
  7. ^ Illustration , Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers
  8. ↑ Claire Maingon: Le maréchal Foch, portraits officiels. In: L'Histoire par l'image. 2008, accessed August 11, 2016 (French).
  9. ↑ Michel Bitzer: L'autre président lorrain. In: Le Républicain Lorrain. 2013, accessed on August 11, 2016 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Baschet, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baschet, Marcel-André (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French portrait painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Gagny
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1941
Place of death Paris