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Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret
French Naturalist painter & printmaker
born 1852 - died 1929

Student of: Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), Jean Léon Gérôme (1824-1904).

As the dean of the nineteenth century academic naturalist tradition, and a painter who sponsored a fervent anti-modernist stance during his life-time, Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, has been steadily coming back into public consciousness over the past fifteen years. Collectors have been drawn to the originality of his conceptions, the meticulousness of his style, and his ability to continue working in an academic mode well into the twentieth century in defiance of the modernist viewpoint. Clearly, Dagnan-Bouveret had a personal vision and this was at variance with the constant flux and change advocated by modernism.
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, was born in Paris on January 7, 1852 and he died in Quincey, Haute-Saône on July 3d, 1929. Since his father, a tailor and businessman, left France in order to start a new life in Brazil, Dagnan-Bouveret was raised in Melun by his maternal grandfather Gabriel Bouveret, whose name he added to his own in recognition of the care Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan Bouveret received from him. Dagnan-Bouveret was trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (beginning in 1869) in the ateliers of Alexandre Cabanel and then Jean Léon Gérôme; the latter's teaching remained the most dominant influence on Dagnan's work. One other artist, and a slightly older colleague, whose work had an impact on Dagnan's was the painter Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), who taught Dagnan the significance of using rural life as a contemporary theme.

Although Dagnan was a Parisian who kept an atelier in Neuilly (just outside Paris) for most of his career, Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan Bouveret married into a Franc-Comtois family. Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan Bouveret is always mentioned among a group of Franc-Comtois artists including Gustave Courtois (1852-1923) (a cousin of his wife), Louis Girardot (1856-1933), and Jules-Alexis Muenier (1863-1942) all of whom had been students of J.L. Gérôme, a painter who was also from the same general region of France. As a naturalist/regionalist Dagnan established his reputation with compositions representing the rural life of the Franche-Comté and of Brittany. These paintings made him one of the most respected members of an international naturalist circle that allowed Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret to have a very strong influence over other painters, working in a similar vein on the European continent, in England, and in America. It is only later in his career, first in the mid 1880s and then more dramatically in the 1890s, that Dagnan turned to religious themes. These became increasingly more visionary and supernatural during the early years of the 20th century. Spiritual themes reflected Dagnan's determined turn toward religious revivalism, a genre that obsessed many painters in the 1890s; it also reflected the powerful influence of his wife whose own devout Catholicism was influential in moving Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret toward some of his religious themes. Dagnan's spiritual paintings found strong support in the atmosphere of the Catholic Revival in France; his paintings such as the mystical Supper at Emmaus and the Consolatrix Afflictorum (Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh), among others, were exhibited in a separate location at the Paris World's Fair of 1900 at a moment when Dagnan's work was highly praised by the establishment. His paintings were also well recognized in the United States as they were reproduced in American periodicals, and collected by such independent tastemakers as George Baker, Mrs. Potter Palmer, and Henry Clay Frick. Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret was also a portraitist of talent and in his later years Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan Bouveret divided his activity between portraits and religious scenes. Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan Bouveret painted members of some of the best established families of the Third Republic; Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan Bouveret also did portraits of actresses (Mme. Bartet) and military leaders (Maréchal Foch). - Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret oil paintings Van Gogh - Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret oil painting Van Gogh Vincent – Raphael oil paintings Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret Bio by Van Gogh paintings art of Raphael, Van Gogh.

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