Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret
Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, c.1900. From the Figures contemporaines tirées de l’Album Mariani
Born	(1852-01-07)7 January 1852
Died
Nationality	French
Known for	Painting
Movement	Naturalism

Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (7 January 1852 – 3 July 1929), was one of the leading French artists of the naturalist school.

Biography

File:Photograph of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret painting The Pardon in Brittany while a model by the name of Walter poses.jpg

Painting The Pardon in Brittany in 1886 with model Walter

He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father emigrated to Brazil. Later he added his grandfather's name, Bouveret, to his own.

He became one of the leading French artists of the naturalist school and painted several paintings depicting Brittany. From 1869 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Léon Gérôme. From 1875 he exhibited at the Salon, where in 1880 he won the first-class medal for the painting "An Accident" and a medal of honour in 1885 for "Horses at the Watering Trough". From the 1880s Dagnan-Bouveret along with Gustave Courtois, maintained a studio in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a fashionable suburb of Paris. By that time he was recognized as a leading modern artist known for his peasant scenes, but also for his mystical-religious compositions. His large-scale painting "The Last Supper" was exhibited at the Salon de Champ-de-Mars in 1896. He was one of the first to use the then new medium of photography to bring greater realism to his paintings. In 1891 he was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour and in 1900 he became a member of the Institut de France. A number of his pictures were purchased by the British art collector George McCulloch, including The Madonna and Child 1880, Dans Le Foret, and a copy of La Cene (The Last Supper).

Works

Women from Brittany

center|border|180x150px|alt=|Woman from Brittany, 1886 Woman from Brittany, 1886  center|border|180x150px|alt=|The Pardon in Brittany, 1886 The Pardon in Brittany, 1886  [[Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Breton Women at a Pardon.jpg|center|border|180x150px|alt=|Breton Women at a Pardon, 1887]] Breton Women at a Pardon, 1887  center|border|180x150px|alt=|Woman in Breton Costume Seated in a Meadow, 1887 Woman in Breton Costume Seated in a Meadow, 1887  center|border|180x150px|alt=|Portrait of a Brittany Girl, 1887 Portrait of a Brittany Girl, 1887  center|border|180x150px|alt=|Bretons Praying, 1888 Bretons Praying, 1888

• Other notable works
• The Burial of Manon Lescaut by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret.png

  The Burial of Manon Lescaut, 1878

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Orpheus' Sorrow.jpg

  Orpheus' Sorrow, 1876

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - A Young Man and Woman Gaze Out a Window.jpg

  A Young Man and Woman Gaze Out a Window, 1877

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Le petit Savoyard mangeant devant l'entrée d'une maison (1877).jpg

  The Little Savoyard Eating in front of an Entrance to a House, 1877

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Wedding in the Photographer’s Studio.jpg

  Wedding in the Photographer’s Studio, 1879

• Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret - An Accident - Walters 3749.jpg

  An Accident, 1879

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Gustave Courtois dans son atelier.jpg

  Sulking - Gustave Courtois in his studio, 1880

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Blessing of the Young Couple Before Marriage (1880-1881).jpg

  Blessing of the Young Couple Before Marriage, 1880–81

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Jeune femme en rose avec son enfant.jpg

  Young Woman in Pink with her Child, 1882

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Hamlet and the Gravediggers.jpg

  Hamlet and the Gravediggers, 1883

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - The Duet.jpg

  The Duet, 1883

• Madonna of the Rose MET 06.1233.2.jpg

  Madonna of the Rose, 1885

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Le pain bénit.jpg

  The Sacramental Bread, 1885

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - A Woman from Bern, Switzerland.jpg

  A Woman from Bern, Switzerland, 1887, portrait of the artist's wife

• Dagnan Bouveret Les Conscrits.jpg

  The Conscripts, 1889

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Watercolourist in the Louvre.jpg

  Watercolourist in the Louvre, c. 1889

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - In the Meadow.jpg

  In the Meadow, 1892

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  In the Forest, 1892

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Christ and the Pilgrims at Emmaus.jpg

  Christ and the Pilgrims at Emmaus, 1898

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Consolatrix Afflictorium.jpg

  Consolatrix Afflictorium, 1899

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Ophelia.jpg

  Ophelia, 1900

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - On the Summit.jpg

  On the Summit, 1903

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Chimères.jpg

  Chimères

• Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret - Willows by a Stream - 24.216 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg

  Willows by a Stream, 1908

• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Marguerite au sabbat.png

  Marguerite au Sabbat, 1911

See also

• Sara Page (1855–1943), his student.

Further reading

• Gabriel P. Weisberg, Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition. New York: Dahesh Museum of Art (2002). ISBN 0-8135-3156-X

External links

Media related to Paintings by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret at Wikimedia Commons