Edmond PETITJEAN 1844+1925

Biography

Edmond Marie Petitjean is a French painter and illustrator born July 5, 1844 in Neufchâteau (Vosges) and died August 7, 1925 in Paris.

Biography Painter of landscapes and seascapes, Edmond Marie Petitjean exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1874. He obtained an honorable mention at the Salon of French Artists of 1881 and became a member of this institution in 1883. He obtained the 1st class medal in 1884 and 2nd class medal the following year.

He painted several Atlantic ports and stayed in Dordrecht around 1886. He participated in the decoration of pavilions for the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and obtained a silver medal there. The following year, he exhibited in Munich. He was named Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1892.

In 1900, he participated in the decoration of the golden room of the Le Train bleu restaurant at the Gare de Lyon in Paris with his Le Puy wall panel. He won a gold medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition.

Petitjean delivers humorous drawings to periodicals such as Le Frou-frou, L'Assiette au Beurre, etc.

On June 25, 1904, he married Jeanne Lauvenay, painter, known under the name of Jeanne Lauvenay-Petitjean. He died on August 7, 1925 at his home at 48, boulevard des Batignolles in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.

1874 - Salon des artistes français : Première exposition de Petitjean 1881 - Salon des artistes français : (Mention Honorable) avec :

1884 - Salon des artistes français : (Médaille de 3e classe) avec :

1885 - Salon des artistes français: (Une rue à Liverdun en Lorraine) (Médaille de 2e classe) avec :

1890 - Salon des artistes français : (Joinville) classée Hors concours achetée par Alphonse de Rothschild pour la Mairie de Ferrières-en-Brie.

1891 - Salon des artistes français : (La Meuse à Verdun) n° 1306 au catalogue du Salon achat de l'État 1895 - Salon des artistes français : (Le port de La Rochelle par gros temps) n° 1520 au catalogue du Salon achat de l'État 1903 - Salon des artistes français : (Le ruisseau en Lorraine) - ( Village de Lorraine)n° 1403 du catalogue du Salon achat de l'État 1923 - Salon des artistes français : (Une rue à Semur) n° 1340 du catalogue du Salon 1924 - Salon des artistes français : (Rue de village en Lorraine) n° au catalogue du Salon Il a participé à de nombreuses expositions :

1889 - Exposition universelle de Paris : Médaille d'argent 1890 - Exposition à Munich 1900 - Exposition universelle de 1900 à Paris : Médaille d'or 1955 - Galerie de l'Institut : Van Rysselbergh et ses amis Paris n° 80 du catalogue de l'exposition 1973 - Kaplan Gallery London Il a obtenu de nombreuses récompenses :

1881 - Mention Honorable au Salon des artistes français 1884 - Médaille de 1re classe au Salon des artistes français 1885 - Médaille de 2e classe au Salon des artistes français 1889 - Médaille d'argent à l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1890 - Médaille à Munich 1900 - Médaille d'or à l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1909 - Silver Medal à Seattle lors de l'Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition N - D - classé : Hors concours Works in public collections Street of a village (between 1910 and 1920), São Paulo Art Museum.

Les Roches de Rochebonne near Saint-Malo, Remiremont, Charles de Bruyères museum.

France Amiens, Picardy Museum:

A village in the country of Neufchâteau, circa 1885, oil on canvas; A Comtois hamlet, oil on canvas.

Arras, Saint-Vaast abbey: The Entrance to a pond in Antwerp, oil on canvas.

Bordeaux, Museum of Fine Arts: Concarneau, oil on canvas, 46 × 65 cm.

Chambéry, Museum of Fine Arts:

Landscape, 1892, oil on canvas, 48.7 × 67.3 cm; The Port of La Rochelle in bad weather, 1895, oil on canvas, 130.5 × 185.5 cm.

Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Thomas-Henry museum: The Ramparts of Vlissingen, in Holland, oil on canvas.

Digne-les-Bains, Gassendi museum: The Lock, oil on canvas.

Dijon, Museum of Fine Arts:

The Stream in Lorraine, circa 1903, oil on canvas, 99 × 150 cm; A street in Semur, circa 1923, oil on canvas, 140 × 171 cm.

Ferrières-en-Brie, town hall: Joinville, 1890, oil on canvas, 130 × 195 cm, listed as a historic monument on October 5, 1995.

Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts: The Village of Beynac, oil on canvas, 147 × 202 cm.

Marmande, town hall: Village, oil on canvas, 139 × 193 cm.

Marseille, Museum of Fine Arts: Landscape of a river in a village, oil on canvas, 48.5 × 68 cm.

Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts: The Meuse at Verdun, 1891, oil on canvas.

Nemours, Château de Nemours: View of a village overlooked by a ruined castle, 1885, oil on canvas, 66 × 44 cm4.

Paris :

Lyon station, Le Train bleu restaurant: Le Puy, 1900, oil on mounted canvas.

Louvre Museum :

Verdun in the evening, circa 1891, pen and Indian ink over graphite on paper, 32.6 × 43 cm.

Woman in a landscape, black ink, graphite, watercolor on paper, 30.5 × 23 cm.

Musée d'Orsay: A street in Liverdun, Lorraine, 1885, oil on canvas, 131 × 200 cm.

Small palace :

Village of Gudmond, oil on canvas; Rochereuil Bridge, oil on canvas.

Parthenay, art and history museum:

La Vau Saint-Jacques de Parthenay [archive], oil on canvas, 60 x 81 cm; The Clock Gate at Parthenay [archive], oil on canvas, 46 x 65 cm; End of autumn in Parthenay [archive], canvas paper, 46 x 56 cm; View of the Faubourg Saint-Paul de Parthenay [archive], oil on cardboard, 45 x 64.5 cm location unknown:

Village of Lorraine, Salon of French Artists of 1903, oil on canvas, State purchase.

Village street in Lorraine, Salon of French artists of 1924, oil on canvas, 89 × 130.5 cm, State purchase.