Évariste Carpentier

Évariste Carpentier
Évariste Carpentier (Paris, c. 1882)
Born	(1845-12-02)2 December 1845 Kuurne, Belgium
Died	22 September 1922(1922-09-22) (aged 76) Liège, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Field	Painting
Movement	Academicism, naturalism, Impressionism (luminism)
Works	The Strangers Washing turnips The Small Pond

Évariste Carpentier, (1845 in Kuurne - 1922 in Liège), was a Belgian painter of genre scenes and animated landscapes. Over the years, his painting evolved from the academic art to impressionism. He is, alongside Emile Claus, one of the earliest representatives of luminism in Belgium.

Evariste Carpentier was a pupil at the Antwerp Academy. He lived in Paris from 1879 till 1886. The talent and personality of the artist never ceased to develop. After having painted religious subjects and a large number of Vendée scenes, he sought in rustic life and the open air those choice subjects which can only be tackled by artists who have the talent to take on the difficulty of painting the human figure in bright sunshine, in the green countryside, and beneath the ever beautiful, harmonious Flemish sky. Carpentier taught at the Liège Academy and was its director until his death. His "Mrs Roland at Sainte-Pélagie" was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1886 and his "Farniente, Souvenir of Flanders" at the Salon of 1887.

List of some works in public collections

Summer Holiday
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Washing turnips (1890)
Museum of Fine Arts, Liège

Playing child
M - Museum (nl), Leuven

The Small Pond
Museum of Fine Arts, Verviers

• Royal Museum of Fine Arts - Antwerp
  • Vendee Revolt 1793
  • Cow shepherd in the Arden^[1]

• Alte Nationalgalerie - Berlin
  • Summer Sun (1896)

• Town hall of Blegny
  • Execution in Blegny, august 1914

• Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium - Brussels
  • The Strangers (1887) · (Town hall of Kuurne)

• Flemish Community
  • Breakfast on the farm - (Gaasbeek Castle)
  • The visit

• French Community of Belgium
  • After School - (Solvay Castle)

• Art and History Museum - Cholet
  • Chouans in ambush (c. 1883)
  • Chouans routed (1883)

• Broel Museum - Courtray
  • False Alarm (1884)
  • Marsh in the Campine
  • The Reprimand
  • The Young Angler
  • An Intimate Conversation (c. 1893)

• The Municipal Museum of Huy
  • Afternoon Nap (c. 1897)

• Town hall of Kuurne
  • Revolt in the Vendée 1793 (1880)
  • The Bride
  • Visit to the convalescent (c. 1887)
  • The Appel Thief (c. 1892)

• Museum of Fine Arts - Liège
  • De verboden zwempartij (1877)
  • Washing Turnips (1890)
  • The Little Goatherd
  • North Sea (1897)
  • The Ducks

• Prince-Bishops' Palace of Liège
  • Prince-Bishops' Palace (c. 1900)
  • Grand Curtius Palace, Quai de Maastricht (c. 1900)
  • Church of St. Jacques (fr) (c. 1900)
  • Church of St. Bartholemew (c. 1900)
  • Pont des Arches (fr) en Church of St. Pholien (fr) (c. 1900)
  • Basse Sauvenière (fr) (c. 1900)

• Museum M - Leuven
  • Playing Child

• Musée Fabre - Montpellier
  • Summer Holiday

• International Art Museum of America - San Francisco
  • The Turnip Pickers

• The Revoltella Museum - Trieste
  • Madame Roland in Sainte-Pelagie (1886)

• Museum of Verviers
  • The Small Pond^[2] (c. 1894)

• Private collection (Salon Brussels 1903)
  • Premiers Beaux Jours

References

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• Annick Lemoine, Evariste Carpentier (1845-1922). Ed. Mecenart/Galerij Depypere, 1994
• Sonia Jérôme, Liliane Sabatini, Louis Maraite et Gaëtane Warzée, À la recherche de… Évariste Carpentier. Cat. exp. Espace BBL Liège, 1997-1998
• Serge Goyens de Heusch, L’Impressionnisme et le Fauvisme en Belgique. Ed. Fonds Mercator, 1998, p. 144, 146, 278, 287, 288, 291
• Collectif (sous la direction de Joost De Geest), 500 chefs-d'œuvre de l'art belge du XVe siècle à nos jours. Ed. Racine, 2006, p. 72
• Vers la modernité, le XIXe siècle au Pays de Liège. Cat. exp. (Liège, 5 octobre 2001-20 janvier 2002), Liège, 2001
• Gaëtane Warzée, Évariste Carpentier et le renouveau de la peinture liégeoise à l’aube du XXe siècle. In: Actes I du XLVIIe congrès de la Fédération des cercles d'archéologie et d'histoire de Belgique, 2e congrès de l'Association des cercles francophones d'histoire et d'archéologie de Belgique, Nivelles 23–26 August 1984, p. 316-317
• Liliane Sabatini, Le Musée de l'Art wallon. Collection "Musea Nostra", Ministère de la Communauté française de Belgique & Crédit Communal de Belgique, Brussels, 1988
• Jules Bosmant, La peinture et la sculpture au Pays de Liège de 1793 à nos jours. Ed. Mawet, 1930
• P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 89-90
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