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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 he 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 painter, 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.
View artworks’ titles of oil painting old master Dagnan-Bouveret
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean France 1852-1929
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