Louis Deschamps
Louis Henri Deschamps was a French painter born on 25 May 1846 in
Biography
He was born on 25 May 1846 from Sebastien Deschamps and Hanriette Chames and gifted with natural artistic talent, after an initial training at the local school, he was educated, first, at the
Artwork
Louis Deschamps enjoyed academic and commercial success, exhibiting at the Paris Salon, from 1872, firstly his historical genre and then scenes of rustic life. It was in Paris where he developed his great talent. He also painted in watercolour and pastel, subjects, which included portraits, religious scenes, historical genre and paintings illustrating social and human themes such as poor peasants, abandoned babies and seduced young girls often using young natural peasant girls as his models and inspiration.[7] His brushwork is dense and pasty. The facial expressions of his sitters, of great emotional intensity, are rendered with muffled tones and unfinished shapes and emerge, with contrast, from the dark backgrounds. The color is spread on the canvas with a brushstroke of great spontaneity following a sudden inspiration almost in the absence of a preparatory drawing.[8] Some of his works became so famous that they were reproduced in prints.[9]
Works
- “Children and chicks”, 1873, oil on canvas, St Pierre church - Le Renouard - Orne - Lower Normandy
- “Moses saved from the waters”, 1875, oil on canvas
- “Hagar and the Favorite, 1876, oil on canvas
- “The poor girl”, 1877, oil on canvas
- “The Small Screening Machine”, 1878, oil on canvas, Montélimar museum.
- “The death of Mireille”, 1879, oil on canvas, an episode of the "Mirèio" by Frédéric Mistral, Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille
- “Prayer”,1880, oil on canvas,Musée Antoine-Lécuyer
- “Vincent wounded”, 1881, oil on canvas, an episode of the "Mireille" by Frédéric Mistral, Calvet Museum in Avignon
- “Resignation”,1882, oil on canvas
- “Portrait of an old man”, 1882, oil on wood
- “The daughter-mother”, 1883, oil on canvas
- “The Contemplations (V. Hugo)”, 1884, oil on canvas, Maison de Victor Hugo - Hauteville House[10]
- "The abandoned" or "The infant", 1885, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco[11]
- “A young girl holding a violin” 1885, oil on canvas
- “The baby” 1886, oil on canvas, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
- “Paternity search” 1887, oil on canvas, Brou Museum in Bourg-en-Bresse.
- “The abandoned”, Watercolor, Louvre museum in Paris (graphic arts department)
- “Crazy woman” Gray wash, Louvre museum in Paris (graphic arts department)
- “The charity”, oil on canvas, Orsay Museum[12]
- “The abandoned”, oil on canvas, Orsay Museum[13]
External links
References
- ^ Dictionary of Artists, Emmanuel Bénézit · 2006
- ^ "Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs : Portraits et biographies suivis d'une notice sur les Salons français depuis 1673, les Sociétés de Beaux-Arts, la Proriété aertistique, etc". 1897.
- ^ Who's who in Art, Bernard Dolman · 1958
- ^ Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Michael Bryan, George Charles Williamson · 1964
- ^ Des amitiés modernes: de Rodin à Matisse: Carolus-Duran et la Société nationale des beaux-arts 1890-1905, Bruno Gaudichon · 2003
- ^ "Louis Deschamps, peintre- Pirou Eugène auteur Thubeuf, Basse-Normandie (France), 1841 - Chaville, Ile-de-France (France), 1909 | Musée d'Orsay".
- ^ Bulletin artistique de l'Est, 1901
- ^ The Magazine of Art, Marion Harry Spielmann · 1902
- ^ "Collections Online | British Museum".
- ^ "Aimons nous encore, aimons-nous toujours". 8 August 2013.
- ^ "Louis-Henri Deschamps". 21 September 2018.
- ^ "Recherche avancée | Musée d'Orsay".
- ^ "L'Enfant abandonné- Deschamps Louis auteur Montélimar, Rhône-Alpes (France), 1846 - Montélimar, Rhône-Alpes (France), 1902 | Musée d'Orsay".