Henri Gervex

French Academic Painter, 1852-1929.French painter. His artistic education began with the Prix de Rome winner Pierre Brisset (1810-90). He then studied under Alexandre Cabanel at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his fellow pupils included Henri Regnault, Bastien-Lepage, Forain, Humbert (1842-1934) and Cormon; and also informally with Fromentin. Gervexs first Salon picture was a Sleeping Bather (untraced) in 1873: the nude, both in modern and mythological settings, was to remain one of his central artistic preoccupations. In 1876 he painted Autopsy in the H?tel-Dieu (ex-Limoges; untraced), the sort of medical group portrait he repeated in 1887 with his Dr Pean Demonstrating at the Saint-Louis Hospital his Discovery of the Hemostatic Clamp (Paris, Mus. Assist. Pub.), which celebrated the progress of medical science with a sober, quasi-photographic realism. Gervexs most controversial picture was Rolla (1878; Bordeaux, Mus. B.-A.), refused by the Salon of 1878 on grounds of indecency, partly because of the cast-off corset Degas had insisted he include. The painting shows the central character in a de Musset poem, Jacques Rolla, who, having dissipated his family inheritance, casts a final glance at the lovely sleeping form of the prostitute Marion before hurling himself out of the window. As his friend, Manet, had done the year before with his rejected Nana (1877; Hamburg, Ksthalle), Gervex exhibited his work in a commercial gallery, with great success.


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Henri Gervex Valtesse de la Bigne oil


Valtesse de la Bigne
Painting ID::  11503
Valtesse de la Bigne
1889 6'6 3/4'' x 4'(200 x 122 cm)Gift of Mrs.Valtesse de la Bigne,1906
   
   
     

Henri Gervex The Coronation  of Nicholas II oil


The Coronation of Nicholas II
Painting ID::  11508
The Coronation of Nicholas II
1896 3' 9 3/4'' x 4' 11 3/4''(116 x 151.5 cm)
1896 3'_9_3/4''_x_4'_11_3/4''(116_x_151.5_cm)
   
   
     

Henri Gervex The Salon Jury oil


The Salon Jury
Painting ID::  54101
The Salon Jury
mk235 1885 Oil on canvas 299x419cm
mk235 1885 Oil_on_canvas 299x419cm
   
   
     

Henri Gervex portrait of mme valtesse de la bigne oil


portrait of mme valtesse de la bigne
Painting ID::  64370
portrait of mme valtesse de la bigne
1889 paris, louvre
1889 paris,_louvre
   
   
     

Henri Gervex Valtesse de la Bigne oil


Valtesse de la Bigne
Painting ID::  83882
Valtesse de la Bigne
Date 1879(1879) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 200 x 122 cm (78.7 x 48 in) cjr
   
   
     

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     Henri Gervex
     French Academic Painter, 1852-1929.French painter. His artistic education began with the Prix de Rome winner Pierre Brisset (1810-90). He then studied under Alexandre Cabanel at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his fellow pupils included Henri Regnault, Bastien-Lepage, Forain, Humbert (1842-1934) and Cormon; and also informally with Fromentin. Gervexs first Salon picture was a Sleeping Bather (untraced) in 1873: the nude, both in modern and mythological settings, was to remain one of his central artistic preoccupations. In 1876 he painted Autopsy in the H?tel-Dieu (ex-Limoges; untraced), the sort of medical group portrait he repeated in 1887 with his Dr Pean Demonstrating at the Saint-Louis Hospital his Discovery of the Hemostatic Clamp (Paris, Mus. Assist. Pub.), which celebrated the progress of medical science with a sober, quasi-photographic realism. Gervexs most controversial picture was Rolla (1878; Bordeaux, Mus. B.-A.), refused by the Salon of 1878 on grounds of indecency, partly because of the cast-off corset Degas had insisted he include. The painting shows the central character in a de Musset poem, Jacques Rolla, who, having dissipated his family inheritance, casts a final glance at the lovely sleeping form of the prostitute Marion before hurling himself out of the window. As his friend, Manet, had done the year before with his rejected Nana (1877; Hamburg, Ksthalle), Gervex exhibited his work in a commercial gallery, with great success.

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