Paul-Émile Boutigny

Paul-Émile Boutigny (mid 1890s). Photograph by Wilhelm Benque

Paul-Émile Boutigny (10 March 1853 in Paris 27 June 1929 in Paris) was a French painter who specialized in military subjects.

Life and work

His father was a tailor and his mother worked as a seamstress. Following the Franco-Prussian War, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Cabanel[1] and developed a unique style of battle painting, drawn from personal experience. He was a regular participant in the Salon after 1880.

He was decorated with the Légion d'honneur in 1898.[2] That same year, he began producing the satirical, artistic and literary journal Cocorico, which promoted Art Nouveau.

He illustrated several works:

Some of his most familiar paintings include:

References

  1. 1 2 Open Library Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs : portraits et biographies suivis d'une notice sur les Salons français depuis 1673, les Sociétés de Beaux-Arts, (1897), p.71
  2. Base Léonore Ministry of Culture

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