Adolphe Appian (born as Jacques Barthelemy Adolphe Appian; 28 August 1819 – 29 April 1898) was a French landscape painter and etcher.
Adolphe Appian | |
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 Adolphe Appian (photo by Camille Dolard) | |
| Born | Jacques Barthelemy Adolphe Appian 28 August 1819 Lyon, France |
| Died | 29 April 1898 (aged 78) Lyon, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Painting, Etching |
| Movement | Barbizon school |
| influenced by | Camille Corot, Charles-François Daubigny |
| influenced | Stephen Parrish |
Early life
editAppian was born in Lyon and changed his name to Adolphe Appian at age fifteen. At the age of fifteen Appian attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Lyon which was an art school which specialized in training to decorate fabrics by a local silk industry. He studied under Jean-Michel Grobon and Augustin Alexandre Thierrat. Later he opened a studio in Lyon and worked as a graphic designer. He travelled to Paris to finish his studies and after he had exhibited a painting and a charcoal drawing in the Paris Salon in 1853 he became friends with Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny who greatly influenced his style. Appian was elected a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.[1][2]
Works
editIn 1866, Appian's two works that he exhibited in Paris were bought by Napoleon III and by princess Mathilde.[3] He painted at the beginning of his career atmospheric pictures in a monochromatic palette of the riverside of the Rhone and the south of France. In 1870 he changed his style to use brilliant and striking color in his paintings but he still continued to make charcoal drawings as well as small etchings of landscapes in the Barbizon style.[4]
As an etcher, he had a distinct influence on the American artist, Stephen Parrish.[5]
Appian died in Lyon on 29 April 1898.
Gallery
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Le Soir aux Martiguese, 1850 -
A Gorge de Loup, 1863, National Gallery of Art -
Le Haut du bois des roches (Rossillon), 1870 -
The Source of the Albarine,
ca. 1870 -
Barque de Pecheurs, 1874, National Gallery of Art -
At Venice, 1878, National Gallery of Art -
A Fisherman in a Wooded Pond at Evening, 1887, National Gallery of Art -
Landscape with Orchard,
by 1898
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References
edit- ^ "Adolphe Appian". Luther College. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
- ^ "Art Experts, Adolphe Appian". Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- ^ "19thC. French School, Adolphe Appian". Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- ^ "Adolpe Appian". art.famsf.org. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
- ^ Laurence S. Cutler et al, Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists, Chartwell Books Inc., 2007, p. 26
External links
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Media related to Adolphe Appian at Wikimedia Commons