Georges Rochegrosse
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Georges Rochegrosse | |
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Born | Georges-Antoine-Marie Rochegrosse 2 August 1859 Versailles, France |
Died | 11 July 1938 Paris, France |
Resting place | Montparnasse Cemetery |
Nationality | French |
Education | Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger in Paris |
Known for | Painter, illustrator, poster artist and etcher |
Movement | Orientalist |
Spouse(s) | Marie Leblond |
Awards | Officer of the Legion of Honor(1892) |
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (French: [ʒɔʁʒ ɑ̃twan ʁɔʃɡʁɔs]; 2 August 1859 – 7 November 1938) was a French historical and decorative painter.
Life and career[]
He was born in Versailles and studied in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger.[1] His themes are generally historical, and he treated them on a colossal scale and in an emotional naturalistic style, with a distinct revelling in horrible subjects and details.
He made his Paris Salon début in 1882 with Vitellis traîné dans les rues de Rome par la populace (Vitellius dragged through the streets of Rome by the people) (1882; Sens). He followed this the year afterwards with Andromaque (1882–83; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen), which won that year's prestigious Prix du Salon. There followed La Jacquerie (1885; Untraced), Le mort de Babylone (The fall of Babylon) (1891; Untraced), The death of the Emperor Geta (1899; Musée de Picardie, Amiens), and Barbarian ambassadors at the Court of Justinian (1907; Untraced), all of which exemplify his strong and spirited but sensational and often brutal painting. In quite another style and beautiful in colour is his Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (The Knight of Flowers) (1894; Musée d’Orsay, Paris; RF 898).
He was elected an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1892 and received the Medal of Honour in 1906 for The Red Delight. Rochegrosse also illustrated several books. Some of the drawings for these illustrations are in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, London. He lived his final years in Algeria, but returned to Paris where he died and is buried in Montparnasse Cemetery. His wife, Marie Rochegrosse (née Leblond), had died in 1920.
Selected works[]
Poster for
Don Quichotte
by Jules MassenetPoster 230 published in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche
The Knight of the Flowers
Marie Rochegrosse in the Dining Room
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt
in CostumeVitellius
Dragged Through the Streets of Rome by the Populace
Sources[]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty
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References[]
- ^ Waller, S. (ed.), Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914: Strangers in Paradise, Routledge, 2017, p. 119.
External links[]
- Media related to Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse at Wikimedia Commons
- 1859 births
- 1938 deaths
- 19th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 20th-century French painters
- 20th-century male artists
- Academic art
- Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
- Orientalist painters
- 19th-century painters of historical subjects
- Alumni of the Académie Julian