Paul-Émile Boutigny
{{Short description|French painter (1853–1929)}}
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File:La Rochejacquelein Cholet.jpg at the Second Battle of Cholet (1899)]]
Paul-Émile Boutigny ({{IPA|fr|pɔl emil butiɲi}}; 10 March 1853 in Paris – 27 June 1929 in Paris) was a French academist painter who specialized in military subjects.
Life and work
His father was a tailor and his mother worked as a seamstress. Following the Franco-Prussian War, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Cabanel[https://archive.org/stream/nospeintresetscu00mart#page/70/mode/2up Open Library] Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs : portraits et biographies suivis d'une notice sur les Salons français depuis 1673, les Sociétés de Beaux-Arts, (1897), p. 71 and developed a unique style of battle painting, drawn from personal experience. He was a regular participant in the Salon after 1880.
He was decorated with the Légion d'honneur in 1898.[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/leonore_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=COTE&VALUE_1=LH%2F340%2F23 Base Léonore] Ministry of Culture That same year, he began producing the satirical, artistic and literary journal Cocorico, which promoted Art Nouveau.
He illustrated several works:
- Chants du Soldat, a popular collection of patriotic poems by Paul Déroulède. Calmann Lévy, Paris 1881
- Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant, Calmann Lévy, Paris 1899
- Les Héros de France (Hoche, Marceau and Desaix) by {{ill|Théodore Cahu|fr}}, SDL, Paris 1900
- L'attaque du Moulin by Émile Zola, from the anthology Les Soirées de Médan, Collection des Dix, Paris 1901
Some of his most familiar paintings include:
- An Episode from the Quiberon Affair (1881). Musée des Beaux-Arts et Arts Décoratifs de Mirande
- The Seventh Line to Attack Malakoff and the Death of Captain Pagès (1887). Hall of Honor of the Seventh Infantry Regiment.
- Napoléon – The Battle of Aspern-Essling – Death of Jean Lannes, Marshall of the Empire (1894)
- Napoléon Bonaparte – The Revolt at Pavia (1895)
References
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Further reading
- Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, Vol. 2. Gründ, Paris 1999, {{ISBN|2-7000-3012-5}}.
External links
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- [http://www.antiquariantraders.com/articles/napoleon_revolt_at_pavia.html Antiquarian Traders]: The Revolt at Pavia, with commentary.
- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/paul-emile-boutigny/past-auction-results ArtNet: More works by Boutigny]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530025713/http://www.style1900.net/cocorico-liste.htm Liste Cocorico] Dates of issues and cover illustrations.
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