Thursday, November 14, 2019

Red Hair in Art: Edmond Aman-Jean

Edmond Aman-Jean (1858 - 1936) was a French symbolist painter, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923.

He established his reputation primarily for his portraits, especially of female subjects; he was also noted for his murals in public and official buildings, including the Sorbonne. Like many French artists of his generation, he was influenced by the new perspectives on Japanese art current in Paris in his day; more unusually, he was interested in the Pre-Raphaelite artists in England.

He was a close friend of Georges Seurat; the two artists shared a Paris studio in 1879. Art historian Robert Herbert called Seurat's portrait of Aman-Jean, "one of the great portrait drawings of the nineteenth century". It was the first work Seurat showed, at the Paris Salon in 1883. Aman-Jean also worked in lithography and printmaking and designed posters.

Dame en rose

Femme au gant

Confidences

Untitled

The Mirror in the Vase

Sous les orangers, femme à Amalfi

Femme à la fleur

Printemps

Hesiod Listening to the Inspiration of the Muse

Le parc

Venezia bella, regina del mare

Woman with Vase

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