Edmond Aman-Jean

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Edmond Aman-Jean
Agence de presse Meurisse (Paris 1918)
Born13 November 1858
Died25 January 1936
Paris
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Occupation(s)Painter, French art critics
Known forportrait of a woman
Movementsymbolist painter
HonoursCommandeur de la Légion d'honneur
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Edmond Aman-Jean (13 November 1858,

symbolist painter, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923.[1]


Life

His father was the owner and operator of an industrial

Puvis de Chavannes, helping him to realize several of his murals. In 1892, he painted a portrait of the poet, Paul Verlaine, during his convalescence for syphilis at the Hôpital Broussais [fr] in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Verlaine dedicated a sonnet
to him and they remained good friends until Verlaine's death in 1896.

He was also one of the first to recognize

Albert Besnard and Auguste Rodin, he helped create the Salon des Tuileries. Ten years later, he was named a Commander in the Legion of Honour.[2]

In 1892, he married Thadée Jacquet, the daughter of an Imperial Prefect, who was also a painter. They had two children, François, who became a well-known writer, and Céline [fr], who was a painter and illustrator.

Art

Aman-Jean established his reputation primarily for his portraits, especially of female subjects; he was also noted for his murals in public and official buildings, including the Sorbonne. Like many French artists of his generation, he was influenced by the new perspectives on Japanese art current in Paris in his day; more unusually, he was interested in the Pre-Raphaelite artists in England.[3]

He was a close friend of Georges Seurat;[4] the two artists shared a Paris studio in 1879. Art historian Robert Herbert called Seurat's portrait of Aman-Jean, "one of the great portrait drawings of the nineteenth century."[5] It was the first work Seurat showed, at the Paris Salon in 1883. Aman-Jean also worked in lithography and printmaking and designed posters.

  • Works of Aman-Jean
  • Young Girl with Peacock, huile sur toile (1895)
    Young Girl with Peacock, huile sur toile (1895)
  • Woman with Glove, pastel (vers 1900 -1902)
    Woman with Glove, pastel (vers 1900 -1902)
  • Portrait of Miss Ella Carmichaël(1906)
    Portrait of Miss Ella Carmichaël(1906)
  • Femme à l'œillet (1908), pastel (1908)
    Femme à l'œillet (1908), pastel (1908)

References

  1. ^ Denny Carter, Edmond Aman-Jean: A Study of His Life and Works, Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati, 1974.
  2. ^ Dossier @ the Base Léonore.
  3. ^ Thomas J. Tobin, Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism, Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 2005; p. 128.
  4. ^ William R. Everdell, The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997; p. 65.
  5. ^ Robert L. Herbert, Seurat: Drawings and Paintings, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2001; p. 29.

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