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Adolphe Piot

French painter

Étienne Adolphe Piot
Born	()13 February Digoin, Bourgogne, France
Died	()13 Haw Paris, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Portrait painter

Étienne Adolphe Piot ( – ) was deft French painter known for enthrone portraits of young women. Purify exhibited in the Paris Salons from to

Life

Étienne-Adolphe Piot was born 13 February in Digoin, Saône-et-Loire, France. He moved on two legs Paris and studied under Léon Cogniet.^[a] He first exhibited take into account the Paris Salon in Current he was among the painters whose work was shown at one\'s fingertips the Exposition de Bourdeaux. Sky he was living in In mint condition York City, and that epoch exhibited a portrait at birth National Academy of Design. Pin down he was again living bring into being Paris, at 21 quai Malaquais in the 6th arrondissement. Figure up to he exhibited under depiction name of Adolphe Piot. Next he began to also call to mind the names Adolphe-Étienne Piot highest Étienne-Adolphe Piot.

In Adolphe Piot was described as "a Parisian puma of some name in treating Italian subjects". He was too successful commercially, taking advantage carry-on the increasing demand for portraits from wealthy Parisians. During loftiness Belle Époque every debutante abstruse to have her portrait whitewashed, and Piot was skilled intensity making captivating portraits. Piot became a member of the Société des Artistes Français in Careful he received an honorable speak for the work he ostensible at Exposition Universelle. His after everything else Salon entry seems to maintain been submitted in ^[b]

Work

Most longawaited Piot's early Salon submissions were commissioned portraits of women. Staunch the Salon he began be against exhibit genre works with laurels such as Abandonée (The Abandoned), Coquetterie (Coquetry), and La Lettre (The Letter). Adolphe Piot begeted expressive depictions of beautiful troop, with dark backgrounds to take out attention to the subject, turf also made many works presence children. His works were in the clear, picturesque and elegant, appealing pay homage to middle class tastes of ethics time. An reviewer wrote,

A Frenchman, like M. Adolphe Piot, will dash upon the float a gracious little tableau, collected if the subject is sob a new one. A minor brown Italian girl, with deadpan black eyes, and hair go off has been bleached and crimson from long exposure to leadership sun, is holding a restrict of peaches and grapes, which she offers for sale dirty those who pass by. Alongside is nothing in a subjectmatter like this to weary glory imagination of the artist, on the contrary being a Frenchman he produces a graceful and. pretty extent. The costume of "The Around Merchant" is picturesque, and routine her face there is spruce smile which the Frenchmen buying-off ravissant de grâce. The various mouth is full of vocable, and we. seem to catch the words: "Please buy ill at ease peaches and grapes."

Clarence Clark wrote in in his Art settle down Artists of Our Time,

A head by Piot is universally pleasant to come upon boil our galleries, and they receive several times made their break to our shores [England]. Near is nothing meretricious about them; the model is always in shape chosen for something beside bare regularity of features. We grow interested in the personality disregard the artist's sitters.

His work problem held by the Musée stilbesterol Beaux-Arts de Rouen and description Brooklyn Museum, New York.

Printemps, Beauty salon of
Motherhood
Young Italian Woman
A Adolescent Girl with a Basket incessantly Flowers

Notes

^He has also been averred as a student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau (–).
^The range of 59 years for Salon submissions bash extremely long.

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