Fernand Cormon

Details

Instance of

human

Born

24 December 1845

Died

20 March 1924

Place of birth

Paris

Place of death

8th arrondissement of Paris

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Fernand, Anne

Family name

Cormon

Father

Eugène Cormon

Movement

academic art

Genre

history painting

Occupation

painter, lithographer

Citizenship

France

Awards

Commander of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officier de l'Instruction publique

artist files at

Frick Art Research Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library

birth name

Fernand-Anne Piestre

cause of death

traffic collision

described by source

Paintings of the nineteenth century: contribution to the history of art, Albert Edelfelt's letters, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

educated at

Beaux-Arts de Paris

employer

Beaux-Arts de Paris

has works in the collection

Nationalmuseum, National Gallery of Canada, Museum of Modern Art, Centre national des arts plastiques, Musée des Augustins, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, musée Jean-Léon Gérôme, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau, Musée d'Orsay, Ackland Art Museum, Maison de Victor Hugo, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

languages spoken, written or signed

French

manner of death

accidental death

member of

Académie des beaux-arts

name in native language

Fernand Cormon

notable work

Cain flying before Jehovah's Curse, Émile Loubet, Nude

place of burial

Montmartre Cemetery

pseudonym

Fernand Cornon

relative

Felix-Nicolas Potocki

residence

Paris

student

Émile Bernard, Nicolas Untersteller, Pierre-Eugène Clairin, André-François Breuillaud, Johannes Holbek, Andry-Farcy, Emanuel Vigeland, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Omer Bouchery, Léon-Laurent Galand, Maurice Félix, Pierre Gandon

student of

Jean-François Portaels, Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin

Connected on Wikidata

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