All Meunier, Constantin's oil paintings
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84136 Child Crowned with Laurels Child Crowned with Laurels Medium Oil on canvas cyf
84773 Fishermans Daughter at Nieuwpoort Fishermans Daughter at Nieuwpoort Medium Oil on canvas cyf
84775 Hiercheuse Hiercheuse Oil on canvas cyf
19415 In the Black Country In the Black Country 1893 Oil on canvas Mus??e du Orsay, Paris.
Meunier, Constantin
Belgian Painter and Sculptor, 1831-1905 Belgian sculptor, painter and draughtsman. He was directed towards an artistic career by his elder brother, the engraver Jean-Baptiste Meunier (1821-1900). He entered the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, in September 1845 and studied under the sculptor Louis Jehotte (1804-84) from 1848. In addition, in 1852 he attended the private studio of the sculptor Charles-Auguste Fraikin. Gradually he came to feel that sculpture, at least in the traditional form taught in Brussels, was incapable of providing an adequate vehicle for either exposition or expression. Still at the Academy, he transferred to painting, therefore, in 1853, and followed the courses given by Fran?ois-Joseph Navez, studying in the evenings at the Saint-Luc studio, with Charles De Groux. He became friends with Louis Dubois, F?licien Rops and other rebellious young artists who were to found the Soci?t? Libre des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1868. With these, Meunier was part of the realist avant-garde, while seeking out a path of his own in painting. It has been said that De Groux had a decisive influence on Meunier. The latter partly denied this and insisted that he had felt the need very early to practise an art that was more devoted to the masses, to the people. His interest in everyday life, in the experience and condition of man, can already be discerned in the sketches and studies he made during his stays in the Trappist monastery of Westmalle, near Antwerp, between 1857 and 1875. . Related Artists to : | Giuseppe Cades | Adolfo Muller-Ury | THULDEN, Theodor van | Gerardus Laurentius Keultjes | BRAMER, Leonaert |