Oscar Gué
Jean-Marie Oscar Gué (born September 28, 1809 in Bordeaux ; † October 2, 1877 there ) was a French genre and history painter.
Life
Oscar Gué was a student of Jean Alaux and his uncle Julien Michel Gué (1789–1843).
At the beginning of his career he often visited Rome , where he painted numerous vedutas, and worked with Jean Alaux for the Palace of Versailles .
He settled in Bordeaux in 1848, became director of the Bordeaux municipal art school and curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. Gué became an employee of the " Gazette des Beaux-Arts ". From 1833 to 1837 he showed Roman vedutas in the Paris Salon, and then until 1859 religious and historical pictures and genre scenes.
His students included u. a. Edmond Louis Dupain and Louis Tauzin .
literature
- Gué, Oscar . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 195–196 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Elmar Stolpe: Gué, Oscar . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 64, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23031-8 , p. 335.
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SURNAME | Gué, Oscar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gué, Jean-Marie Oscar (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1809 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1877 |
Place of death | Bordeaux |