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Femme algérienne - Reda Dennoun
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Edmont Van Coppenole
1846-1914
Edmond Van Coppenolle was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1846. He moved to
Montigny, close to Moret-sur-Loing in France to work at the newly
opened Schopin porcelain factory. Here he produced sketches and studies
in Indian ink, wash and crayon of poultry which was used for the
decoration on the porcelain. He married and shortly afterwards moved
into a vast studio in the Grande-Rue.
Coppenolle was renowned
for his oil paintings of flowers. Although influenced by the 17th
century painters of the Netherlands he was also aware of the growing
fashion in France for garden flowers and more natural-looking flower
paintings.
Like his contemporaries, Coppenolle’s work was greatly
influenced by the impressionists, often capturing the softness and
beauty of his subject with robust brushwork and a colorful palette
The artist died in 1914 in Chateau-Landon, France.
Artists
of the 19th century continued the long tradition of still life painting
and many made it a life long study. By the latter half of the century
some of the major Impressionist painters like Monet, Renoir and Cézanne
made it an integral part of their work and in the case of Fantin-Latour
it was truly a life long study. Many other artists also devoted their
artistic careers to still life painting – these included: Georges
Jeannin, Eugene Claude, Madeleine Lamaire, Eugene H. Cauchois, Paul
Biva and Edmond Van Coppenolle.