Marcel de Chollet
Marcel de Chollet or Marcel Chollet (26 October 1855,
naturalism and impressionism
.
Life
The son of the architect Charles Joseph de Chollet,École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts[2] and settled in Paris for good at a studio at 17 rue Victor-Massé in Montmartre.
He successfully exhibited still lifes and drawings in Swiss salons between 1883 and 1898 – these works are now in the
Musée d’art et d’histoire (Fribourg), Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva) and the Musée Rath among others.[1]
In Paris his work was exhibited at the Paris Salon. He moved away from naturalism in his still lifes, influenced by the portraits of women then being produced in Paris by Claude Monet and Édouard Manet
.
His first interior commission was in 1885 for the audience hall of the
Grands Magasins du Louvre
' was destroyed in 1974.
Gallery
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Main hall of the Hôtel des Alpes-Grand Hôtel in Territet, 1895 -
Montreux Palace in Montreux, 1906 -
Salle del Castillo in the Casino du Rivage in Vevey, 1908
Bibliography
- (in French) Tamara Robbiani: Marcel Chollet (1855–1924). Un artiste méconnu. In: monuments vaudois, Nr. 2, 2011, S. 19–25.[3]
References
- ^ ISBN 9785875088612..
- ^ a b Benezit Dictionary of Artist
- ^ Monuments Vaudois.
External links
- "Chollet, Marcel de". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
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