Monday, April 22, 2019

Artist of the day, April 22: Émile Friant, French painter (#673)

Émile Friant (1863 – 1932) was a French artist. Its family, of modest origin, settles in Nancy at the time of the annexation of the Alsace-Moselle. 

Emile Friant begins his formation at the School of the Art schools of Nancy and exposes as of the fifteen years age to the local Show. Friant continues his studies in Paris in the workshop of the painter Alexandre Cabanel and becomes at twenty years second price of Rome.Paris where the Friant young person finds other Lorraine artists like Aimé Morot, Jules Bastien-Lepage and Victor Prouvé.

Painter naturalist, Emile Friant carries out primarily portraits and scene paintings of the everyday life. Its fabrics draw their instantaneous character in the photographic process. After the success of the World Fair of 1889, which crowns it of a gold medal for "All Saints’ day", Emile Friant receives many orders of portrait paintings of personalities nancéiennes and American.

Friant was appointed a professor of painting in 1923 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, promoted to the position of commander in the Legion of Honor, and made a member of the Institut de France.

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The Studio

Autoportrait en gris clair

1878, Political Dicussion

1878, La Porte Saint-Georges

1878,   Man Standing

1879, Hercules and the Cretan Bull

1880,  Painters Resting

1881,   The Entrance of the Clowns

1881, Bacchus

1881, Le Port de Malzéville

1881, Portrait de M. Sidrot

1881, Scène de vie préhistorique

1881, Sketch for The Prodigal Son

1883, Portrait of Madame Petitjean

1884,   Portrait du Sculpteur Ernest Bussière

1884, Les Buveurs ou Le Travail du lundi

1884, Paysage aux alentours du Sport Nautique

1885, A Student (also known as Self-portrait)

1885, Portrait de Madame Constantin

1885, The Landscape Painter in his Studio

1885, The Study

1886, Jeanniot peignant la Ligne de feu

1887, Portrait de sa mère épluchant un navet, devant une fenêtre

1888,  Les Canotiers de la Meurthe

1888, La Toussaint

1888, Le printemps

1888, Les Amoureux

1888, Portrait de Madame Paul

1888, Portrait of Camille Majorelle

1888, Soir d'automne

1888, Woman Reading

1889, La Lutte

1890, La petite barque

1891, Ombres portées

1891, Souvenir

1892, Le chapeau à fleurs

1893, Self-portrait

1894, Le repas frugal

1895, Guillaume Dubufe

1896, Tendernesse maternelle

1898, Chagrin d'Enfant

1898, La douleur

1898, La douleur (Detail)

1898, Madame Coquelin Mere

1899, Voyage a l'Infini

1906, Studio Visit

1908, The Expiation

1921, The familiar birds

1922, The Corner of the Studio

1923, Standing Female Nude, Back View

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