Eugène Fichel
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Benjamin Eugène Fichel (30 August 1826 Paris - 2 February 1895 Paris) son of Moise Mayer Fichel and Lili Abigail Sasias, was a French painter.
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Biography[]
Eugène Fichel entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and became a pupil of Hippolyte Delaroche and Michel Martin Drolling,[1] but painted very much more under the inspiration of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, whose exquisite handling is suggested in numerous small canvases of his which by their refined technique and vivid action recall the characteristic intensity and directness of composition which belong to the painter of "Friedland." His students included Jeanne Samson, who first exhibited at the Salon in 1869,[2] and whom he later married.[3]
Along with great care in finish, Fichel's canvases also exhibit an archæological exactness, and a kind of delicate humor. His first work of importance was exhibited in 1849 and in 1850 he participated with "Harvey Demonstrating the Circulation of the Blood to Charles I". In 1857 he received a medal for his painting in the Salon of that year and received a second medal in 1869. He exhibited a canvas every year at the Salon until 1895. He became Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1870.[1]
Works[]
The principal works of Fichel are genre paintings. These include "The End of Dinner", "A Festival in the Year 1776", "The Capture of a Spy", "The Wandering Singers", "A Morning Call", "The Arrival at the Inn", "The Council of War", "Tavern scene" and others. He also did history paintings which have the freedom and imagination of pure genre: "The Night of August 24, 1572" and "Founding of the French Academy." Society portraits include that of Mrs. "Palmyre Bordier", spouse of painter and inspector general of fine arts Alfred Arago, son of François Arago. Many of his pictures are in galleries all over the world. Two of his paintings, "A Violin Player," executed in 1871, and "Awaiting an Audience," painted in 1881, are in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Works of Benjamin Eugène Fichel
In the atelier (1857), São Paulo, Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation.
Madame P. (1857), , Clark Art Institute.
The connoisseurs (1871), Location unknown.
Nude behind folding screen, location unknown.
Notes[]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b E. Benezit, 1976. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Volume 4, p. 353-355. Librairie Gründ. Paris, France. ISBN 9782700001495.
- ^ E. Benezit, 1976. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Volume 9, p. 263. Librairie Gründ. Paris, France. ISBN 9782700001495
- ^ SAMSON, Jeanne - Painter in Bénézit
References[]
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- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. This work in turn cites:
- Montrosier, E., Les Artistes Modernes (Vol. IV, Paris 1884)
. - Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- Artists from Paris
- 19th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 1826 births
- 1895 deaths
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- French painter, 19th-century birth stubs