Guillaume Fouace

Biography

Born with the hamlet from Jonville with Réville, in a family of farmers, his talent which was noticed by the conservative of Cherbourg. Thanks to him, it obtained, like its famous predecessor Cotentin board Jean-François Millet, a purse of the cherbourgeoise municipality and went to continue its studies of painter in Paris.

In 1870, three years after its arrival in the capital, it exposes to the Salon. In 1873, it exposes its first dead natures.

Installed in Paris with his wife, girl of the pharmacist of Cherbourg, it did not forget any therefore Cotentin. Thus it decorated into 1878 the vaults with the church with Montfarville with 19 fabrics representing with the biblical scenes like the Annunciation, the escape in Egypt or the walk of Kings Mages. In the chorus it reproduces Cène Vinci.

He died into 1895 before receiving the medal of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor that the government had just allotted to him. Its tomb, which one can see with the cemetery of Réville, is decorated of lying out of white marble of his/her daughter, died in 1888.

It realized more than 700 tables with realistic tendency, mainly of the portraits and dead natures and some landscapes. The Musée of Orsay has some of its fabrics. The Musée Thomas Henry of Cherbourg-Octeville devotes a room to forty its works.

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External bonds

Colette Delaite, '' Guillaume Fouace: Only one shade in tables '' on the site of the town of Cherbourg
Salle Guillaume Fouace of the Museum Thomas-Henry

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