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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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Fille à la robe blanche

Fille à la robe blanche (1896)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Au thé de la Madeleine, Fin du jour

Au thé de la Madeleine, Fin du jour (1928)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Still Life
Lady in Black

Lady in Black (circa 1890)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Intérieur à Londres

Intérieur à Londres (1884)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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La petite fille aux hortensias

La petite fille aux hortensias (1887)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Ellen Millicent Cobden (Mrs Walter Sickert)

Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Ellen Millicent Cobden (Mrs Walter Sickert) (1890)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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The Finish at an English Country Racecourse

The Finish at an English Country Racecourse

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Le peintre Sickert et sa mère, Petit-déjeuner á Neuville

Le peintre Sickert et sa mère, Petit-déjeuner á Neuville

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait of James Joyce (1882-1941), Author

Portrait of James Joyce (1882-1941), Author (1934)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de Léon Pissard

Portrait de Léon Pissard (1920)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait d’Ignacio Zuloaga

Portrait d’Ignacio Zuloaga (1900-1904)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de René Crevel (1900-1935), écrivain

Portrait de René Crevel (1900-1935), écrivain (1928)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de Monsieur Léon Pissard jeune

Portrait de Monsieur Léon Pissard jeune (1895)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de Mary Cassat

Portrait de Mary Cassat (1885)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de Marguerite Decazes de Glucksbierg, princesse Jean de Broglie

Portrait de Marguerite Decazes de Glucksbierg, princesse Jean de Broglie (1905-1914)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de Madeleine Pissard en Roxane (l’amour médecin)

Portrait de Madeleine Pissard en Roxane (l’amour médecin) (1921)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de Madame Emile Blanche, mère de l’artiste

Portrait de Madame Emile Blanche, mère de l’artiste (1890-1893)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de Madame Abel Hermant

Portrait de Madame Abel Hermant (1888)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de Mabel Dodge à la Villa Curonia

Portrait de Mabel Dodge à la Villa Curonia (1911)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait du peintre Jules Chéret (1836-1933), dans son atelier

Portrait du peintre Jules Chéret (1836-1933), dans son atelier (1892)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de l’artiste

Portrait de l’artiste (1890)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de Lady Michelham

Portrait de Lady Michelham (1905)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de John Lemoine

Portrait de John Lemoine (1887)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de Jean Cocteau

Portrait de Jean Cocteau (1913)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Portrait de Henri Guérard

Portrait de Henri Guérard (1889)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Marie-Blanche Vasnier

Marie-Blanche Vasnier (1888)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Mademoiselle Meuriot sur son poney

Mademoiselle Meuriot sur son poney (1889)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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L’enfant à la poupée

L’enfant à la poupée (1900)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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La mandarine

La mandarine (1898)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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Dr. Antoine Léon Florand (1857-1927)

Dr. Antoine Léon Florand (1857-1927)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
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