Virginie Demont-Breton
Virginie Demont-Breton (born July 26, 1859 in Courrières , † January 10, 1935 in Paris ) was a French painter.
Life
Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Breton was the daughter and pupil of the painter Jules Breton . In 1880 she married the painter Adrien Demont , with whom she first lived in Montgeron and painted together in the Pas de Calais in the summers .
She was honored on her debut in 1880 at the Salon de Paris and received a second class medal in the Salon in 1883. In 1893 she won a gold medal at the world exhibition in Amsterdam . In 1891 the couple moved to Wissant , where they had the villa Le Typhonium built in neo-Egyptian style by the Belgian architect Edmond De Vigne . In 1894 the artist was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and became a full member in 1913. In 1920 she published a volume of memoirs.
Demont-Breton was a moderate women's rights activist and from 1895 to 1901 chairwoman of the "Union des femmes peintres et sculpteurs", the union for painters and sculptors.
She was inducted into the Legion of Honor in 1894 and made an officer in 1914.
Her genre pictures from the life of fishermen, portraits and history pictures , which are now attributed to the École de Wissant , are privately owned and in regional museums in northern France, and American private collectors were also interested in the art dealer Samuel Putnam Avery .
Fonts (selection)
- Tendresses in the tour. 1914-1919 poésies. Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1920.
- Les maisons que j'ai connues. Plon-Nourrit, Paris 1926 ( Les maisons que j'ai connues : 1. Notre pays natal. 2. Nos amis artistes. 3. Peintres et savants; L'audition colorée. 4. Dans les Flandres; Gand-Douai ).
- Pictures (selection)
Femme de pêcheur venant de baigner ses enfants, undated
La Plage, 1883
Hommes de mer, 1898
Dans l'eau bleue, 1898
Première Audace premier frisson, 1900
Vincent van Gogh
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L'homme est en mer
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Van Gogh's version, 1889
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Vincent van Gogh found a black and white illustration of her painting L'homme est en mer (“The man is at sea”) in the magazine Le Monde Illustré in 1889 and painted his own version in his own colors.
literature
- A. Bourrut Lacouture: Demont-Breton, Virginie . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 26, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22766-3 , pp. 88 f.
- Demont-Breton, Mme. Virginie-Elodie . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 60 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Virginie Demont-Breton in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Virginie Demont-Breton , at demontbreton (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Joint daughter: Adrienne Ball-Demont.
- ↑ Annette Bourrut Lacouture: egyptomania fin de siecle: Le Typhonium, de Meure of peintres Adrien Demont et Virginie Demony Breton. F. de Nobele, Paris 1990.
- ↑ Virginie Demont-Breton , at LEONORE
- ↑ Stefan Koldehoff: The Van Gogh, which once belonged to Errol Flynn. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 25, 2014, p. 37.
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| SURNAME | Demont-Breton, Virginie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Breton, Virginie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Courrières |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1935 |
| Place of death | Paris |