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Léon FREDERIC (1856-1940) Place Saint Germain des Prés, Pari…
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Léon FREDERIC (1856-1940) Place Saint Germain des Prés, Pari…
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Lot no. 17
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Léon FREDERIC (1856-1940)
Place Saint Germain des Prés, Paris.
Watercolour, signed lower right.
29 x 42 cm on view
Note: Belgian painter, born 26 August 1856 in Brussels and died 25 January 1940 in Shaerbeek. He studied at the Académie des Beaux Arts in Brussels. In 1874 he worked in the studio of Jean-François Portaels, then the following year rented a studio with several young painters and travelled to Italy from 1878 to 1879. In 1878 he exhibited at the Brussels Salon and made his debut with the Essor group, composed mainly of realist painters. He then exhibited in Brussels, Ghent, Lièges, Munich, Nice and Paris.
He won a bronze and a gold medal in Paris at the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900, and a medal in Berlin in 1891. He was made a knight of the Order of Leopold and ennobled by King Albert I, who granted him the title of Baron. In the 1880s, he became one of the most popular painters in Belgium.
His works can be found in many museums, including the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the Royal Museums of Belgium in Brussels, the Ixelles Museum, the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts and the Liège Museum of Fine Arts. In Paris at the Musée d'Orsay and in Lille at the Palais des Beaux Arts. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki.
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