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Jacques-Émile Blanche
1861–1942
A gifted French portrait painter and writer, he moved easily through the cultural worlds of Paris and London and captured many of the artists and writers of his time. His own books and memoirs offer a lively window into the artistic life of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
4 Audiobooks
Propos de peintre, première série: de David à Degas Ingres, David, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Whistler, Fantin-Latour, Ricard, Conder, Beardsley, etc. Préface par Marcel Proust
by Jacques-Émile Blanche
Essais et portraits
by Jacques-Émile Blanche
Propos de peintre, deuxième série: Dates Précédé d'une Réponse à la Préface de M. Marcel Proust au De David à Degas
by Jacques-Émile Blanche
Aymeris
by Jacques-Émile Blanche
About the author
Born in Paris on January 1, 1861, Jacques-Émile Blanche grew up in an unusually cultured environment. He was largely self-taught as an artist, though he received some guidance early on, and he went on to build a successful career painting portraits in both Paris and London.
Blanche became especially known for portraying major literary and artistic figures. He painted people such as Marcel Proust and James Joyce, and sources describe him as moving in wide cultural circles that included writers, painters, and society figures on both sides of the Channel.
He was also a writer and memoirist, not just a painter. His books and essays drew on first-hand knowledge of the artistic world around him, which helps explain why he remains interesting today: his work preserves both the faces and the atmosphere of a remarkable cultural moment. He died in Offranville, France, on September 30, 1942.