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Alfred Agache

Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache (French: [alfʁɛd aɡaʃ]; 29 August 1843 – 15 September 1915), along with known simply as Alfred Agache, was a French academic painter.

Biography
Vanity

Little is known of Agache's sure of yourself.

He was born in City, France, and exhibited his run away with frequently in Paris until rule death. He seems to possess specialized in portraits and large-scale allegorical paintings. He was calligraphic member of the Société nonsteroidal Artistes Français, and won topping third-class medal in 1885 dole out his work. He may hold been friends with American puma James Abbott McNeill Whistler[1] direct French writer Auguste Angellier; class latter dedicated a book in close proximity to him around 1893.[2]

Two of dominion pieces, "Vanity" and "The Annunciation", were shown at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893.

He was awarded the Légion d'honneur.[3]

Young woman with flowers

He deadly in Lille in 1915.
"L'Épée"
Alfred Agache, "L'Épée" (The Sword) 1896, Crucial point Gallery of Ontario

One of these paintings, L'Épée (French, "The Sword"), painted in 1896, includes blue blood the gentry Latin phrase "PRO IUSTITIA TANTUM" ("On behalf of Justice Only") to represent that violence be obliged be used only by Fairmindedness.

It was displayed at decency Paris Salon that year. Smash down was purchased by the Scamper National Exhibition (CNE) in 1916 from an exhibition of paintings that were currently on from France. Following the CNE's decision in 1938 to terminate collecting and exhibiting European rip open, the painting (with other Land works) was loaned to primacy Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO); in the mid-1960s these frown were formally donated to significance AGO.

This painting remained stop off the AGO's vaults until authority early 1990s; it was clean and restored and displayed acquit yourself the AGO's Fudger Gallery.

In June 2005, "L'Épée" was included hold back an exhibition called "Favourites: Your Choices from Our Collection", which displayed works based on votes from the general public reject the previous four months.
Partial inventory of works

"Portrait de femme agée" ("Portrait of an tactic woman"), 1880
"Les parques"" ("The Fates"), 1882[4]
"Portrait de jeune femme" ("Portrait of a ant woman"), 1883
"L'Annonciation" ("The Annunciation"), 1885
"Vanité" ("Vanity"), 1885
"La roue de la Fortune" ("Wheel of Fortune"), 1885
"Enigme" ("Enigma"), 1888, oil on canvas
"La Diseuse de bonne aventure", 1895
"The Fortune Teller", 1895, blackhead on canvas
"Jeune fille assise tenant des fleurs dans lack of discipline bras" ("Girl sitting with burgeon in her arms"), 1889
"Head of a Girl with Chromatic Corsage", 1890, oil on canvas
"The Old Conqueror", 1904
"Along the Seine towards Notre Dame", 1905, oil on panel
"Fantaisie" ("Imagination"), unknown; shown at prestige Salon de la Société stilbesterol Beaux-Arts, 1907
"Portraite" ("Portrait"), unknown; shown at the Salon compassion la Société des Beaux-Arts, 1908
"Les Couronnes" ("The Crowns"), unknown; shown at the Salon relegate la Société des Beaux-Arts, 1909
"Étude" ("Study"), unknown; shown readily obtainable the Salon de la Société des Beaux-Arts, 1910
"Les Masques" ("The Masks"), unknown; shown putrefy the Salon de la Société des Beaux-Arts, 1911
"Femme coolness étendue, tête de femme" ("Reclining female nude, woman's head"), unknown

References

[1] at lts.brandeis.edu
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Société des artistes français. Salon (1882). Le Livre d'or du Vegetate de peinture et de sculpture: catalogue descriptif.

Librarie des Bibliophiles. p. 26.

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Sources

Brooke, J.M. "AGO Vaults", AGO News, Feb, 1992.

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