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Jacques-Émile Blanche
Jacques-Émile Blanche

Jacques-Émile Blanche

French, 1861-1942
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Jacques-Émile Blanche was a French artist, largely self-taught, who became a successful portrait painter, working in London and Paris.

Blanche was born in Paris. His father, whose name he shared, was a successful psychiatrist who ran a fashionable clinic, and he was brought up in the rich Parisian neighborhood of Passy in a house that had belonged to the Princesse de Lamballe.

Although Blanche received some instruction in painting from Henri Gervex, he may be regarded as self-taught. He became a very successful portrait painter, with a style derived from 18th-century English painters such as Thomas Gainsborough as well as Édouard Manet and John Singer Sargent. He worked in London, where he spent time from 1870 on, as well as Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. One of his closest friends was Marcel Proust, who helped edit several of Blanche's publications. He also knew Henry James and is mentioned in Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

In 1902, Jacques-Émile Blanche took over the direction of the Académie de La Palette, where he would remain director until 1911. He taught at the Académie Vitti in 1903.

Among the painter's most famous works are portraits of his father, Marcel Proust (private collection, Paris), the poet Pierre Louÿs, the Thaulow family (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Aubrey Beardsley (National Portrait Gallery, London), and Yvette Guilbert and the infamous beauty Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione whom his father had treated for mental illness. Others he painted included James Joyce, Julia Stephen, Edgar Degas, Claude Debussy, Auguste Rodin, Colette, Thomas Hardy, John Singer Sargent, Charles Conder, Percy Grainger, and Tamara Karsavina as Stravinsky's Firebird.

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Dahlias et capucines à l’urne d’argent

Dahlias et capucines à l’urne d’argent (1904)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Still Life
Fleurs dans un intérior

Fleurs dans un intérior (1927)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Still Life
Sea Wall

Sea Wall

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Landscape
Dieppe

Dieppe

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Landscape
Woman Reading

Woman Reading

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Henry James

Henry James (1908)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Reverie

Reverie

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Children

Children

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
L’enfant au panier

L’enfant au panier (1892)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Hortensias (grande chaleur)

Hortensias (grande chaleur)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Still Life
Vaslav Nijinsky in ‘Danse Siamoise’

Vaslav Nijinsky in ‘Danse Siamoise’ (circa 1911)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Dahlias et capucines à l’urne d’argent

Dahlias et capucines à l’urne d’argent (before 1906)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Still Life
Salon jaune à Offranville

Salon jaune à Offranville (1921)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Still Life
Le Chérubin de Mozart

Le Chérubin de Mozart (ca 1904)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
La marquise de Casa-Fuerte

La marquise de Casa-Fuerte (1879 - 1889)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Portrait de femme

Portrait de femme (1897)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Portrait de Daisy de Broglie

Portrait de Daisy de Broglie (1912)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Pouponne Zelinska au panier

Pouponne Zelinska au panier (1896)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Fillette (Lucie Esnault Au Psyché)

Fillette (Lucie Esnault Au Psyché) (1889)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Regent Street, London

Regent Street, London

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Landscape
Portrait of Désirée Manfred

Portrait of Désirée Manfred (1909)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Five o’Clock

Five o’Clock (1896)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Illustration
Portrait de Maurice Barrès

Portrait de Maurice Barrès (1895)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Portrait de Maurice Barrès

Portrait de Maurice Barrès (1890)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Lucie Esnault

Lucie Esnault (1897)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Illustration
Bouquet de fleurs

Bouquet de fleurs

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Still Life
Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Woman (1890)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Le Groupe de six

Le Groupe de six (1922)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
Bouquet de fleurs

Bouquet de fleurs (circa 1915)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Still Life
Nancy McKean

Nancy McKean (1904)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Figurative
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