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See also:DANIEL See also:VIERGE (1851-1904)
, See also:Spanish painter and draughtsman, was See also:born in See also:Madrid in 1851
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He went to See also:Paris in 1867 to seek his See also:fortune, fired by the vivid See also:energy of his See also:national temperament
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He became attached to the Monde illustre in 187o, just before the Franco-Prussian See also:War See also:broke out, and, like other artists in the See also:paper, came under the powerful See also:influence of Edmond See also:Morin, the first newspaper draughtsman in See also:France who sought to impart to drawings for See also:journals the See also:character of a See also:work of See also:art
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See also:Vierge's earlier drawings, therefore, partake greatly of Morin's See also:style; such are, " The See also:Shooting in the See also:Rue de la Paix," " The See also:Place d'Armes at See also:Versailles," " The See also:Loan," " The See also:Great School-Fete of See also:Lyons," " Anniversary of the Fight of Aydes " and " Souvenir of Coulmiers." Vierge lost no See also:time in proving the extraordinary vigour and picturesqueness of his art
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Apart from the contribution of his own See also:original work, he was required by his paper to redraw upon the See also:wood, for the engraver, the sketches sent in by artist-correspondents, such as Luc 011ivier Merson in See also:Rome and See also:Samuel Urrabieta (Vierge's See also:brother) in See also:Spain
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From 1871 to 1878 his individuality became more and more pronounced, and he produced, among his best-known drawings, " See also:Christmas in Spain," " The Republican See also:Meeting in See also:Trafalgar Square," " Attack on a See also:Train in See also:Andalusia," " Feast of St Rosalia in See also:Palermo;" " In the Jardin d'Acclimatation," " The Burning of the Library of the Escurial, 1872," " Grasshoppers in See also:Algiers," " See also:Brigandage in See also:Sicily," " See also:Night Fete in See also:Constantinople,"
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" See also:Episode of the See also:Civil War in Spain," " See also:Marriage of the See also: In 1902 he exhibited at the New See also:Salon a See also:scene from the Franco-Prussian War . He died at See also:Boulogne-sur-See also:Seine in May 1904 . See See also:Roger See also:Marx, I,'Image (1898) ; Beraldi, La Gravure au zg~ siecle . |
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