Paul Pascal
{{Short description|French painter}}
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Paul Pascal (1839–1905) was a French landscape painter. He did landscape paintings of the Middle East and the Mediterranean coast with gouache. After he emigrated to the United States in 1893, he did paintings of the American wilderness with Native Americans. His artwork is exhibited in museums in France.
Early life
Paul Pascal was born in 1839 Toulouse, France.{{cite web|title=Exposition : Paul Pascal, mémoires vagabondes (Toulouse, 1839 - Washington 1905) (archive)|url=https://www.musees-midi-pyrenees.fr/musees/musee-du-pays-vaurais/expositions/archives/paul-pascal-memoires-vagabondes-toulouse-1839-washington-1905-20140517/|website=L'Association des Conservateurs des Musées de Midi-Pyrénées|accessdate=February 18, 2017}} His family were ébénistes (cabinet-makers).{{cite news|title=Un hommage à Paul Pascal|url=http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2014/08/11/1932595-un-hommage-a-paul-pascal.html|accessdate=February 18, 2017|work=La Dépêche du Midi|date=August 11, 2014}} He grew up in North America.
Pascal graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Career
Pascal began his career as a painter in Toulouse in the 1870s. By the 1880s, he moved to Paris, where he became a landscape painter. He mostly did landscapes of the Middle East, but also Italy, the Mediterranean coast and the Pyrenees. He only painted with gouache.
Pascal emigrated to the United States in 1893. He continued to do landscape paintings, including some depicting Native Americans.
Death and legacy
Pascal died in poverty in 1905 in Washington, D.C.
His paintings are exhibited at the Musée Paul Dupuy in Toulouse, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne, and the Beaux Arts Museum in Agen. They were also auctioned by Bonhams,{{cite web|title=Lot 7005|url=https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17329/lot/7005/|website=Bonhams|accessdate=February 18, 2017}} Sotheby's,{{cite web|title=Lot 7: PAUL PASCAL Woman on Shoreline|url=http://timed.sothebys.com/auction-lot/PAUL-PASCAL-Woman-on-Shoreline_CCB4CD3864/|website=Sotheby's|accessdate=February 18, 2017}} and Christie's.{{cite web|title=An oasis at night|url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/paul-pascal-french-1832-1903-an-oasis-4516028-details.aspx|website=Christie's|accessdate=February 18, 2017}}
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Category:Artists from Toulouse
Category:Painters from Occitania (administrative region)
Category:École des Beaux-Arts alumni
Category:19th-century French painters
Category:20th-century French painters
Category:20th-century French male artists
Category:French landscape painters
Category:French emigrants to the United States
Category:19th-century French male artists
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