Fernand Cormon

Fernand-Anne Piestre , known as Fernand Cormon , born with Paris the December 24th 1845 and died in Paris the March 20th 1924, is a academic painter French.

Its life and its work

Raise Jean-François Portaels with Brussels, then of Alexandre Cabanel and Eugene Fromentin in Paris, it makes its beginnings with the Salon of 1868. It is made known for its sanguinary scenes, the such Meurtre with the seraglio or the Mort of Ravana , which is preceded with the Living room of 1875. It paints also portraits, without never forsaking the academic style, and travels in Tunisia and Brittany. Professor with the School of the Art schools, it is elected member of the Académie of the Art schools in 1898.

Fernand Cormon had inter alia as pupils Louis Anquetin, Armand-Jacques Assus, Adolphe Beaufrère, Emile Bernard, Jacques Bonneaud, George Hendrik Breitner, Ibrahim Çallı, Auguste-Elysium Chabaud, Eugene-Louis Chayllery, Thorvald Erichsen, Constantin Font, Jean Frélaut, Charles Laval, Victor Baube, Emmanuel Basket-Katz, Henri Matisse, Alphonse Osbert, Nicholas Roerich, Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, Henri of Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh.

Gallery

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