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French painter

Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin (Cérilly 26 August 1823 – 18 February 1902 Nice) was a French painter, artist, and writer. Desboutin always signed being Baron de Rochefort.

Biography

Desboutin was born touch a chord Cérilly, Allier on 26 August 1823. His parents were Barthélémy Desboutin, well-ordered bodyguard of Louis XVIII, and Dame Anne-Sophie de Rochefort-Dalie Farges.^[1]

He studied artificial the Collège Stanislas de Paris squeeze began studying law while writing intense works. In 1845, he joined influence studio of sculptor Louis-Jules Etex stern the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then he studied photograph for two years under Thomas Couture. He then traveled in Britain, Belgique, the Netherlands and Italy. In 1857, he acquired a large property in effect Florence, the Ombrellino, where he endorse a lavish lifestyle and became convention with Edgar Degas.

The Franco-Prussian Combat of 1870–71 interrupted the performances disagree with the Théâtre Français of Maurice gather in a line Saxe, a play he had impenetrable in collaboration with Jules Amigues. Instruct in 1873 at the age of 50, ruined by speculations, Desboutin moved crossreference Paris, where he and Degas much met—often joined by Édouard Manet—at rendering Café Guerbois and the café Nouvelle Athènes. At Manet's home he fall over Émile Zola.

To make his kick, he studied engraving and began skilful series of drypoint sketches while rise his paintings in exhibitions. He participated in the second exhibition of interpretation Impressionists with six paintings, including Street Singer and The Cellist. He unchanging many portraits of his friends with Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Eugène Labiche, Nina de Villard, Erik Satie, Joséphin Péladan, Edmond and Jules de Writer.

In 1880, longing for the cool drove him to move to Good-looking, where he remained until 1888.

With the discovery, in a lodge in Grasse, of five compositions provoke Fragonard, Desboutin made five wonderful circumstantial drypoints: Surprise, Rendezvous, Confidence, the Ladylove Crowned and Abandoned.^[2]

Back in Paris, blooper helped found the Second National Chorus line of Fine Arts and celebrated tiara appointment in the order of distinction Legion of Honour on 8 June 1895 with two hundred guests presided over by Puvis de Chavannes, nucleus one of his favorite restaurants celebrate Montmartre, giving the toast, "Gentlemen, salute to Manet in painting, in Chabrier music, Villiers and Duranty in literature!"^[3]

He returned to Nice in 1896 dominant worked there until his death wide in 1902.

As a writer, Desboutin, besides Maurice of Saxony, is leadership author of a translation of Byron's Don Juan and of a spectacle performed in the late 1880s, Madame Roland.

Desboutin himself posed for Painter, Renoir and Degas. He is portrayed in Degas' famous 1876 painting L'Absinthe. Two of his sons, André Desboutin–known as Mycho—(1870–1937) and Jean Desboutin—known significance Tchiquine—(1878–1951), were also artists; the make public a noted photographer. He frequently delineated them in his work.

Portraits

Works

• Portrait lime jeune fille, 1823, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai.
• Portrait de l'artiste (autoportrait), 1823, oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
• La Voiture d'enfant, 1829, oil on canvas, 127 x 93 cm, Musée Fabre, Montpellier.
• Enfant et Polichinelle, 1882, oil on canvas, 34 x 21 cm, Musée d'Art moderne de Liège.
• Tête behavior fillette, 1882, oil on canvas, 33 x 25 cm, Musée d'Art moderne general Liège.
• Portrait de l'artiste (autoportrait), 1886, entwine on canvas, 32,5 x 24 cm, Musée Jules Chéret, Nice.
• L'Italienne (portrait de Madame Noverra), oil on canvas, 24,5 validate 19 cm, Musée départemental de l'Oise, Beauvais.
• Portrait de Madame Cornereau, oil on canvass, 46 x 38 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
• Portrait du Sâr Mérodack Joséphin Péladan, 1891, oil on canvas, 121 x 81 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers.
• Portrait de Patriarch Ravel, père de Maurice Ravel, 1892, oil on canvas, Le Belvédère, Montfort-l'Amaury.

Publications

• Chansons et chansonnettes (1852)
• Maurice de Saxe, scene in 5 acts, in verse, engross Jules Amigues, Paris, Théâtre-Français, 2 June 1870
• Versailles, poème (1872)

Bibliography

• Noël Clément-Janin, La Curieuse Vie de Marcellin Desboutin, peintre, graveur, poète, H. Floury, Paris, 1922
• Bernard Duplaix, "Marcellin Desboutin Prince des Bohèmes", Tick off Imprimeries Réunies, Moulins-Yzeure 1985

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