Fernand-Anne Piestre (Fernand Cormon)

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Fernand-Anne Piestre (Fernand Cormon)

Born in : Paris, 1845 - Dead in : Paris, 1924
Membre de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts : France 1898

Fernand Cormon was one of the leading historical painters of modern France. At an early age he attracted attention by the better class of sensationalism in his art, although for a time his powerful brush dwelled with particular delight on scenes of bloodshed, such as the Murder in the Seraglio (1868) and the Death of Ravara, Queen of Lanka at the Toulouse Museum.

Biography

The Musée d'Orsay has his Cain flying before Jehovah's Curse; and for the Mairie of the fourth arrondissement of Paris he executed in grisaille a series of panels: Birth, Death, Marriage, War, etc. A Chiefs Funeral, and pictures having the Stone Age for their subject, occupied him for several years. He was appointed to the Legion of Honor in 1880. Subsequently he also devoted himself to portraiture.

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Studied under Alexandre Cabanel et Eugène Fromentin-Dupeux (Eugène Fromentin) Students included Vincent van Gogh, Louis Anquetin, Emile Bernard, Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (Henri Matisse), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Charles Laval et Takeji Fujishima

Achievement

Orsay Museum

Artist

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Painting
Fernand-Anne Piestre (Fernand Cormon)
(1880)