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See also:ALPHONSE See also:MARIE DE See also:NEUVILLE (1836-1885) , See also:French painter, was See also:born, the son of wealthy parents, at See also:Saint-Omer, See also:France, on the 31st of May 1836 . From school he went to See also:college, where he took his degree of bachelier es lettres . In spite of the opposition of his See also:family he entered the See also:naval school at See also:Lorient, and it was here, in 1856, that his See also:artistic instincts first declared themselves . After being discouraged by several painters of repute, he was admitted to See also:work in Picot's studio . He did not remain there See also:long, and he was See also:painting by himself when he produced his first picture, " The Fifth See also:Battalion of Chasseurs at the See also:Gervais See also:Battery (Malakoff)." In 186o de See also:Neuville painted an " See also:Episode of the taking of See also:Naples by See also:Garibaldi " for the Artists' See also:Club in the See also:Rue de See also:Provence, and sent to the See also:Salon in 1861 " The See also:Light See also:Horse See also:Guards in the Trenches of the Mamelon Vert." He also illustrated Le Tour du monde and See also:Guizot's See also:History of France . At the same See also:time he painted a number of remarkable pictures: " The Attack in the Streets of See also:Magenta by Zouaves and the Light Horse " (1864), " A See also:Zouave See also:Sentinel " (1865), " The See also:Battle of See also:San Lorenzo " (1867), and " Dismounted See also:Cavalry See also:crossing the Tchernaia " (1869) . In these he showed See also:peculiar insight into military See also:life, but his full See also:power was not reached till after the See also:war of 1870 . He then aimed at depicting in his See also:works the episodes of that war, and began by representing the " See also:Bivouac before Le See also:Bourget " (1872) . His fame spread rapidly, and was increased by " The Last Cartridges " (1873), in which it is easy to discern the vast difference between the conventional treatment of military subjects, as practised by See also:Horace See also:Vernet, and that of a See also:man who had lived through the life he painted . In 1874 the " Fight on a Railroad " was not less successful, and was followed by the " Attack on a See also:House at Villersexel " (1875) and the " Railway See also:Bridge at Styring " (1877) . In 1878 the painter exhibited (not at the See also:Great See also:Exhibition) " Le Bourget," the " Surprise at Daybreak," " The Intercepted Despatch-See also:bearer," and a considerable number of drawings . He also exhibited in See also:London some episodes of the Zulu War . In 1881 he was made an officer of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour for " The See also:Cemetery of Saint-Privat " and " The Despatch-bearer." During these years de Neuville was at work with See also:Detaille on an important though less artistic work, " The See also:Panorama of Rezonville." De Neuville died in See also:Paris on the 18th of May 1885 . At the See also:sale of his works the See also:state See also:purchased for the Luxembourg the " Bourget " and the " Attack on a Barricaded House," with a See also:water-See also:colour " The Parley," and a See also:drawing of a " Turco in Fighting See also:Trim." See Montrosier, See also:Les Peintres militaires (Paris, 1881), "De Neuville," in See also:Gazette See also:des See also:beaux arts (Paris, 1885) . |
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