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Gaston La Touche

Gaston La Touche

Key data

Birth	24  octobre  1854 Saint-Cloud
Death	12  juillet  1913 (à 58 ans) Paris
Nationality	France
Activity (s)	Peintre pastelliste aquarelliste GRAVEUR illustrateur sculpteur
Training	M. Paul
Artistic movement	Naturalisme Post-impressionnisme
Influenced by	François Boucher , Antoine Watteau , Edouard Manet , Edgar Degas , Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Awards	Officer of the Legion of Honor

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Gaston La Touche ¹ , also known as Gaston La Touche was born on 24  October  1854 in Saint-Cloud , and died 12  July  1913 in Paris is a painter , pastel , watercolor , engraver , illustrator and sculptor French .

Summary 1 Biography 1.1 The beginnings 1.2 A new style 2 Works in public collections 3 Pictorial works 4 Prizes, medals 5 Salons 6 Galleries, Exhibitions 7 honors 8 Bibliographie 9 Notes and references 10 External links

Biography

Born into a family from Normandy , it nourishes an early passion and vocation for painting and convinced her parents to take drawing lessons from ten years under the leadership of Mr. Paul, an art teacher for three francs month. These courses are permanently interrupted by the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 when the family finds refuge in Normandy, Champsecret in Orne.

The beginnings

In 1875, he entered the room with a bas-relief medallion portrait of Francois Jules Edmond Got actor and dean of the Comédie-French , and a few etchings in a vein naturalist . Between 1877 and 1879, he met Edgar Degas , Edouard Manet which he attended the workshop ² , Duranty and Marcellin Desboutin who meet at the New Athens cafe in Paris. There is also a meeting of Émile Zola he admires and he illustrates stories and novels as The Dram .
Starting in the 1880s, he painted intimate scenes in the Dutch style of XVII ^th  century. His first painting, The Lady of the Fifth , was admitted to the Salon of 1881. In 1889, Gaston La Touche painted Strike at Anzin , parade workers inspired by Emile Zola ³ .

A new style

On the advice of his friend Felix Bracquemond , it intensifies the colors of his palette and draws his subjects in the wake of the fête galante of Antoine Watteau and genre scenes of François Boucher . Landscapes, portraits bright, also influenced by Puvis de Chavannes , meet an immediate success in the National Society of Fine Arts .
In 1891, he burns paintings which he is not satisfied. He receives the order decorations City Hall Saint-Cloud and the hall of the Ministry of Justice ⁴ . In 1900, he participated in the decoration of the restaurant the Blue Train from Gare de Lyon in Paris. He divides his time between his studio at 31 rue Dailly Saint-Cloud and property Champsecret in Orne. In 1906, he was a founding member of the Salon Society of Watercolor which he is chairman and where he exhibited.
He died in 1913.

Works in public collections

Drawings, pastels, watercolors, lithographs

• 1854 - Grand jet d'eau pastel, Musée d'Orsay
• 1889 - Album of 40 drypoint

Paintings

• 1854 - The marriage of Riquet with the Tuft , 1854 Musée d'Orsay
• 1854 - Jalousie , Musée d'Orsay
• 1854 - Bracquemond and his disciple , Musée d'Orsay
• 1854 - Jet d'eau aux Tuileries , the Palais du Luxembourg
• 1885 - Nativity where the divine child is visited modern characters , 1885, Museum of Fine Arts and Lace
• 1896 - Pardon breton , Chicago, Art Institute
• 1897 - The Last Supper , Hermitage Museum , St. Petersburg
• 1897 - Translation of the Holy Relic , Hermitage Museum
• 1900 - Le Souper , Musée Antoine Lécuyer de Saint-Quentin
• 1907 - Diner au casino , Dayton Art Institute
• 1908 - Jet d'eau aux Tuileries , the Musée d'art d'Indianapolis
• N - D - Legend of point Argentan , Museum of Fine Arts and Lace

Monumental works, decorations

• 1900 - Decoration of the Golden Hall of the restaurant The Blue Train  : Antibes
• N - D - Decoration of the City of St. Cloud , the four seasons, the Allegory of Peace , the Apotheosis of Watteau
• 1906 - Decoration Fair buffet diplomatic Elysee Party Night
• 1909 - Decoration of the stairs of the Great Hall of the Maison Mercier brothers air theater
• N - D - Decoration Oval Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, Desire to please, goodness of heart, Tenderness of Heart, Motherly Love
• 1912 - Decoration of the house of Edmond Rostand , Edmond Rostand Museum in Cambo-les-Bains , Target and Theresa's Party

Illustrated books

• 1878 - Émile Zola , L'Assommoir
• 1898 - Albert Samain , To the slopes of the vase , publishing Society of Friends of Books, 1898
• 1917 - Henri de Regnier , poems , publishing the expense of an amateur, J. Meynial

Prizes, medals

• 1884 - Users 3 ^e class at the Salon of French artists for a vow and another
• 1888 - Medal 2 ^e class at the Salon of French artists for the new mother
• 1889 - Silver medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris
• 1900 - Gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris

Salons

• 1875 - Salon of French artists , medallion in bas-relief portrait of François Got some etchings and
• 1881 - Salon of French artists, The Lady of the fifth
• 1882 - Salon of French artists, the Burial of a Child in Normandy
• 1884 - Salon of French artists (3 Medal of ^e Class)
• 1888 - Salon of French artists (Medal 2 ^e Class)
• 1890 - Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts , Phlox
• 1896 - Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-arts, decorative panel which appears on his wife and son
• 1906 - 1 ^st Exhibition of Painting Water
• 1910 - Living Arts The four decorative panels for the Department of Justice (never installed), are located in the Palais du Luxembourg

Galleries, exhibitions

• 1889 - Exposition Universelle in Paris
• 1899 - International Art Exhibition of the City of Venice (Biennale)
• 1900 - Exposition Universelle in Paris
• 1908 - Galerie Georges Petit , a retrospective exhibition of more than three hundred of his works
• 1909 - Gallery Boussod and Valadon in The Hague, Netherlands, Netherlands

Honors

• 1883 - Member of the associate Salon of French artists
• 1900 - Knight of the Legion of Honor
• 1909 - Officer of the Legion of Honor

Bibliography

• Georges Petit , Catalogue of works of Gaston La Touche exhibit at the G. Small June 11 to July 13, 1908 , Paris, Imprimerie Georges Petit
• Jean-Baysse Valmy, Gaston La Touche, his life, his work , collection Painters of Today, published by F. Juven, Paris, 1910. Online .
• Anonymous Catalogue of Paintings and Studies by Gaston La Touche sale Galerie G. Small 8 rue de Seze Paris, Monday, June 2, 1919 , Imprimerie G. Small
• Anonyme, Catalogue of collection of paintings by Gaston La Touche, April 25th - May 20th, 1920, édition The Buffalo fine Arts academy, Albright art gallery
• Anonymous, Gaston La Touche Exhibition from May 29 to June 29, 1923 at the gallery , The Paris Sketch Printing, publishing Galerie G. Allard
• Collective, Le Train Bleu , Lois States Editions Press Service, Paris, 1990 ( ISBN  2908557010 )
• Dictionary Benezit
• Henri Frantz Gaston La Touche 1854 - 1913 , Studio Editions, Paris, 1914 and London, 1915

Notes and references

1. ↑ ( en ) person authority record: Gaston La Touche  [ archive ] , BnF , accessed 11 March 2012.
2. ↑ J. Valmy-Baysse, Gaston La Touche, sa vie, son oeuvre , Librairie F. Juven, Paris, 1910, p.15
3. ↑ Larousse Monthly 1911-1913
4. ↑ But they have not been installed and are now in the Palais du Luxembourg .

• Biography in English of La Touche Safran Arts
• The record button on Artcyclopedia.com: To access works via its museums and art galleries

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