Henri Gervex
Figure of a Naked Woman Standing, Hands Behind Head
Officiers supérieurs et généraux de la guerre de 1870-1871, et membres du gouvernement de la Défense
Woman lying with her legs crossed and her arms spread apart
A Meeting of the Judges of the Salon des Artistes Francais
Distribution des récompenses aux exposants par le président Sadi-Carnot
Dernière retouche avant le bal
A sa toilette - Femme nue dans un intérieur
Portrait of the Couturier Madame Paquin (1869-1936)
Communion at the Church of the Trinity
Guy de Maupassant (1850-93), engraved by Victor Augustin Michel (1828-91)
Liane de Pougy, detail of An evening at the Pré-Catelan
Study for a portrait of Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918)
The Coronation of Nicholas II, last Tsar of Russia
Fragment of the panorama of 'The History of the Century', with portraits of literary figures
The Board of Directors of 'La Republique Francaise'
Élégante au chapeau de dentelle
Femme au buste nu devant son miroir
Henri Gervex (Paris 10 December 1852 – 7 June 1929) was a French painter who studied painting under Alexandre Cabanel, Pierre-Nicolas Brisset and Eugène Fromentin. [1]
Henri Gervex
Biography
"Rolla", 1878
His early work belonged almost exclusively to the mythological genre, which served as an excuse for the painting of the nude, but not always in the best of taste. His Rolla of 1878, based on a poem by Alfred de Musset, was rejected by the jury of the Salon de Paris for immorality, since it depicted a scene from the poem of a naked prostitute after having sex with her client.
Gervex afterwards devoted himself to representations of modern life and achieved signal success with his Dr Péan at the Salpétrière ("The Operation"), a modernized paraphrase, as it were, of Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson.[2]
Career
A Session of the Painting Jury, c. 1883
He was entrusted with several important official paintings and the decoration of public buildings. Among the first are The Distribution of Awards (1889) at the Palais de l'Industrie, The Coronation of Nicolas II, The Mayors' Banquet (1900), and the portrait group La République Française; and among the second, the ceiling for the Salle des Fêtes (ballroom) at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, and the decorative panels painted in conjunction with Emile-Henri Blanchon for the mairie of the 19th arrondissement, Paris. He also painted, with Alfred Stevens, a panorama, The History of the Century (1889). The Musée du Luxembourg holds his painting Satyr Sporting with a Bacchante, as well as the large Members of the Jury of the Salon (1885). Other pictures of importance, besides numerous portraits in oils and pastel, are Communion at Trinity Church, Return from the Ball, Diana and Endymion, Job, Civil Marriage, At the Ambassadeurs, Yachting in the Archipelago, Nana and Maternity.
In 1913 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Notes
´"Gervex, Henri". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
"Henri Gervex". www.artrenewal.org. Retrieved 2015.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gervex, Henri". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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