Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret

Biography

He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father emigrated to Brazil. Later he added his grandfather's name, Bouveret, to his own.

He became one of the leading French artists of the naturalist school and painted several paintings depicting Brittany. From 1869 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Léon Gérôme. From 1875 he exhibited at the Salon, where in 1880 he won the first-class medal for the painting "An Accident" and a medal of honour in 1885 for "Horses at the Watering Trough". From the 1880s Dagnan-Bouveret along with Gustave Courtois, maintained a studio in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a fashionable suburb of Paris. By that time he was recognized as a leading modern artist known for his peasant scenes, but also for his mystical-religious compositions. His large-scale painting "The Last Supper" was exhibited at the Salon de Champ-de-Mars in 1896. He was one of the first to use the then new medium of photography to bring greater realism to his paintings. In 1891 he was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour and in 1900 he became a member of the Institut de France. A number of his pictures were purchased by the British art collector George McCulloch, including The Madonna and Child 1880, Dans Le Foret, and a copy of La Cene (The Last Supper).

Dagnan-Bouveret was a close friend of the Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt. They met during their studies in Paris in the 1870s and were part of the artist circle around Jules Bastien-Lepage together with Gustave Courtois, among others.

Works

|Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret - Woman from Brittany - 1922.442 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg|Woman from Brittany, 1886 |The Pardon in Brittany MET DT11779.jpg|The Pardon in Brittany, 1886 |Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Breton Women at a Pardon.jpg|Breton Women at a Pardon, 1887 |Pascal-Adolphe-Jean-Dagnan-Bouveret-xx-Woman-in-Breton-Costume-Seated-in-a-Meadow-1887.jpg|Woman in Breton Costume Seated in a Meadow, 1887 |Dagnan Bouveret Portrait of Brittany Girl.jpg|Portrait of a Brittany Girl, 1887 |MBAM Dagnan-Bouveret - Bretons en prière.jpg|Bretons Praying, 1888

File:The Burial of Manon Lescaut by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret.png|The Burial of Manon Lescaut, 1878 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Orpheus' Sorrow.jpg|Orpheus' Sorrow, 1876 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - A Young Man and Woman Gaze Out a Window.jpg|A Young Man and Woman Gaze Out a Window, 1877 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Le petit Savoyard mangeant devant l'entrée d'une maison (1877).jpg|The Little Savoyard Eating in front of an Entrance to a House, 1877 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Wedding in the Photographer’s Studio.jpg|Wedding in the Photographer’s Studio, 1879 File:Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret - An Accident - Walters 3749.jpg|An Accident, 1879 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Gustave Courtois dans son atelier.jpg|Sulking - Gustave Courtois in his studio, 1880 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Blessing of the Young Couple Before Marriage (1880-1881).jpg|Blessing of the Young Couple Before Marriage, 1880–81 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Jeune femme en rose avec son enfant.jpg|Young Woman in Pink with her Child, 1882 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Hamlet and the Gravediggers.jpg|Hamlet and the Gravediggers, 1883 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - The Duet.jpg|The Duet, 1883 File:Madonna of the Rose MET 06.1233.2.jpg|Madonna of the Rose, 1885 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Le pain bénit.jpg|The Sacramental Bread, 1885 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - A Woman from Bern, Switzerland.jpg|A Woman from Bern, Switzerland, 1887, portrait of the artist's wife File:Madone À La Treille (Dagnan-Bouveret).jpg|Madone À La Treille (Madonna of the Grapevine), 1888 File:Dagnan Bouveret Les Conscrits.jpg|The Conscripts, 1889 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Watercolourist in the Louvre.jpg|Watercolourist in the Louvre, c. 1889 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - In the Meadow.jpg|In the Meadow, 1892 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret-Dans la forêt-Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy.jpg|In the Forest, 1892 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Christ and the Pilgrims at Emmaus.jpg|Christ and the Pilgrims at Emmaus, 1898 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Consolatrix Afflictorium.jpg|Consolatrix Afflictorium, 1899 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Ophelia.jpg|Ophelia, 1900 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - On the Summit.jpg|On the Summit, 1903 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Chimères.jpg|Chimères File:Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret - Willows by a Stream - 24.216 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg|Willows by a Stream, 1908 File:Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Marguerite au sabbat.png|Marguerite au Sabbat, 1911 File:Dagnan-Bouveret, Saint-Trophime à Arles.jpg|Saint-Trophime à Arles, 1914 File:Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret Primavera.jpg|Primavera (1914), oil on canvas, 68 x 34 7/16 in. (172.7 x 87.5 cm), Clark Art Institute

References

References

1. (13 February 2018). "Painting and Photography: the work of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret 1".
2. ''[[New York Times]]'', 25 April 1896.
3. Christie, Manson and Wood's sale catalogue 1913
4. (14 February 2018). "Painting and Photography: the work of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret 2".
5. Vainio-Kurtakko, Maria. (2022). "Ett gott parti : Scener ur Ellan de la Chapelles och Albert Edelfelts liv". Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland.
6. (1886). "The Pardon in Brittany".
7. "Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret In the Forest, drawing".
8. "Marguerite au Sabbat1912 by Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret".