Ferdinand Roybet

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Ferdinand Roybet
Jean-Georges Vibert, Paris
Known forPainter
MovementOrientalist
AwardsKnight, Legion of Honour, 1893

Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet (12 April 1840 – 11 April 1920) was a French painter and engraver, best known for his historical and costume genre scenes.

Biography

He was born in

Jean-Georges Vibert and copied the Old Masters at the Louvre
.

In 1865, after some financial hardships, he presented two paintings at the

francs
. He then decided to concentrate on costumed figures, mostly from the 18th century, and was awarded a contract for three canvases per month at an annual salary of 25,000 francs.

Following the

Siege of Paris
, he embarked on a long period of travelling, visiting Belgium and Algeria. Upon his return, he sold the works he had created for 10,000 francs, settled into a mansion and began collecting antiquities from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This eventually led to financial difficulties and his mansion was repossessed by his creditors.

He was named a knight in the Legion of Honour in 1893[1] and had many wealthy people among his clients – notably Cornelius Vanderbilt, who paid 100,000 francs for one of his works at the Palais de l'Industrie in 1893. He also painted many notable people in period costume, including Count Robert de Montesquiou, Madame Henriette Poincaré and General Joseph Gallieni.

He died in Paris on 11 April 1920.

Passion of Christ. After his death, in 1921, they were the subject of a special showing at the Salon. Six years later, the Musée Roybet Fould [fr] was established in Courbevoie by Consuelo Fould
, who owned a large number of Roybet's paintings.

Selected paintings

See also

References

  1. ^ Ferdinand Roybet @ the Base Léonore.
  2. ^ "Ferdinant Roybet Dies". Asheville Citizen-Times. Paris. 12 April 1920. Retrieved 9 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

Further reading

  • Agnès Delannoy: Hommage aux fondateurs, Ferdinand Roybet & Consuelo Fould, 120 works from the collections of the Musée Roybet Fould, Courbevoie 1992.

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