Marie-François Firmin-Girard
Marie-François Firmin-Girard (born May 29, 1838 in Poncin , † January 8, 1921 in Montluçon ) was a French genre and landscape painter.
Marie-François Firmin-Girard attended a drawing school in Paris in 1853 and studied from 1854 at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris with Charles Gleyre and Jean-Léon Gérôme . He won the second Prix de Rome in 1861 . After returning to Paris, he set up his studio on Boulevard de Clichy.
From 1859 he exhibited at the Salon de Paris , then at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français , where he received numerous medals, then from 1890 to 1914 at the Société nationale des beaux-arts .
He painted mostly densely populated cityscapes of Paris streets and squares.
He became one of the first residents of the artists' colony of Onival, a district of Ault (Somme), and had a villa built there around 1875. In the area around Onival he created several landscapes.
literature
- Girard, Firmin (Marie-Francois Firmin) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 244 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Marie-François Firmin-Gerard. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Firmin-Girard, Marie-François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French genre and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poncin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1921 |
| Place of death | Montluçon |