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Antoine Vollon - Chrysanthèmes

Chrysanthèmes (before 1886)

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
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Antoine Vollon

Antoine Vollon was a French realist artist, best known as a painter of still lifes, landscapes, and figures. During his lifetime, Vollon was a successful celebrity, enjoyed an excellent reputation, and was called a "painter's painter". In 2004, New York's then-PaceWildenstein gallery suggested that his "place in the history of French painting has still not been properly assessed".

Vollon was born the son of an ornamental craftsman in Lyon, France. He taught himself to paint. He began an apprenticeship to an engraver in metal, and studied under Jehan Georges Vibert at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon from 1850 to 1853 to become a printmaker. He then worked at decorating enamelled pans and stoves. In 1860 he and Marie-Fanny Boucher married and later had two children, Alexis and Marguerite.

In 1859 he moved to Paris, with the intention of becoming a painter. There he became a student of Théodule Ribot and was influenced by Dutch still life painters of the 17th century. He became friends with Alexandre Dumas, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Honoré Daumier and Charles-François Daubigny. Vollon once described himself as a young artist "madly in love with painting".

Vollon aspired to paint figures and not only still lifes which were the lowest acceptable genre for the Salon. He submitted a figure painting of a woman carrying a large basket on her back, Femme du Pollet à Dieppe (Seine-Inferieure), to the 1876 Salon, where it won first prize and received universally great reviews. However it was criticised by Édouard Manet, who unleashed a few words, in English: Bah! What is Vollon's Femme? A basket that walks (French: Bah! . . . qu'est-ce que la Femme de Vollon? un panier qui marche) which stigmatized it. According to Carol Forman Tabler, curator and professor of art who wrote her dissertation on Vollon, writing for Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide:

After one year in the Salon des Refusés in 1863, beginning in 1864 he exhibited his work at the Paris Salon. Vollon won a third-class medal in 1865, a second-class in 1868, and first-class in 1869. Vollon was a member of the Salon's jury for at least ten years starting in 1870.

Jean-Baptiste Olive's (1848-1936) still lifes were influenced by his works. Vollon also had students, among whom were Raymond Allègre (1857-1933), Joseph Garibaldi (1863-1941), Henri Michel-Lévy (1845-1914), Théo Mayan (1860-1936) and Gustave le Sénéchal de Kerdréoret (1840-1933).

He became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1870, and eight years later received the Officer's cross. He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1897. In 1900 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Paris World's Fair.

In July of that same year Vollon suffered a stroke while painting at Versailles and later caught a fever. He died shortly thereafter, on 27 August 1900, at the age of 67. He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.

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Vase, fleurs et fruits

Vase, fleurs et fruits (before 1890)

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
View of the Church of Notre Dame de Lorette and the Rue Fléchier, Paris

View of the Church of Notre Dame de Lorette and the Rue Fléchier, Paris (c. 1860 - c. 1900)

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
La bassine de cuivre

La bassine de cuivre

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
Vue présumée d’un port en Normandie

Vue présumée d’un port en Normandie

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
After the Ball

After the Ball

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
Coin d’atelier, boulevard de Clichy

Coin d’atelier, boulevard de Clichy (1872-1887)

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
Nature morte

Nature morte (before 1890)

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
Marseilles Harbour with a Lighthouse

Marseilles Harbour with a Lighthouse (c.1887)

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
Still Life of Elegant Objects

Still Life of Elegant Objects

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
Harbour view in Dunkerque

Harbour view in Dunkerque (1880 - 1900)

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
Calice, vidrecome, livres liturgiques et cahiers de musique

Calice, vidrecome, livres liturgiques et cahiers de musique (before 1887)

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
Still-life with wild game

Still-life with wild game (1864)

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
Intérieur de cellier

Intérieur de cellier (before 1890)

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
Still life of flowers and fruit

Still life of flowers and fruit

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
Le moulin de la Galette, à Montmartre

Le moulin de la Galette, à Montmartre (1861)

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900)
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