Julien Gustave Gagliardini
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Julien Gustave Gaillardin, known as Julien Gustave Gagliardini (1 March 1846, Mulhouse - 28 November 1927, Paris) was a French Impressionist landscape painter and engraver.
Biography[]
His family was originally from Italy. He began as a student of the history painter, Léon Cogniet at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His first exhibit at the Salon came in 1869, with a series of genre scenes and portraits.
, then worked in the studios ofBy the 1880s, he had abandoned those subjects and was devoting himself entirely to landscapes. He quickly developed a preference for Auvergne and the south of France; areas that would remain his favorites for the rest of his life. While working there, he became a close friend of François Nardi, another French artist of Italian ancestry, who encouraged him to use the original form of his family name.[citation needed]
He benefitted from several major government purchases, in 1880, 1891 and 1913. After being awarded several second and third class medals, he was the recipient of a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889) and a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900). He was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor in 1893.[1]
His works may be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux, and the .
,References[]
- ^ "Notice no. LH/1056/7". Base Léonore (in French).
Further reading[]
- Hélène Braeuener, "Gagliardini", in Les Peintres de la baie de Somme : autour de l'impressionnisme, La Renaissance du livre, Tournai, 2001, pp.60-61 ISBN 2-8046-0554-X
- Raymond Oberlé, "Julien Gustave Gagliardini (pseud. de Gaillardin)", in Nouveau Dictionnaire de Biographie Alsacienne, vol. 12, p.1096
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- 19th-century French painters
- French landscape painters
- Recipients of the Legion of Honour
- French Impressionist painters
- People from Mulhouse
- 20th-century French painters