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Ernest BLANC-GARIN (Givet 1843 - Givet 1916)
"Playing on the Beach"
French School
Signed on the lower left
Dated 1879
Oil on canvas laid down on panel
32 x 40 cm / 12.6 x 15.8 in
Literature:
BÉNÉZIT, E., "Dictionnaire critique des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs", Gründ, Paris, 1999.
SCHURR, G., "Dictionnaire des Petits Maîtres de la peinture: 1820-1920", Les éditions de l'amateur, Paris, 1996
Artist Biography :
Ernest Blanc-Garin was a French painter of genre scenes, portraits, views of city and landscape history. He was a
pupil of Jean-François Portaels in 1863 and Alexandre Cabanel in Paris where he exhibited at the Paris Salon
beginning in 1868. He visited Italy and then settled in Brussels in 1871 where he opened a private Academy and
many pupils including Jean Evenepoel, Jean van den Eeckhoudt and Louis Crespin. In 1891, he became one of the
founding members of the "Société des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles".
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