Édouard François Zier

Édouard Zier.jpg
Édouard François Zier
Édouard Zier
— engraving by Désiré Quesnel
Born Édouard François Zier
1856
Paris, France
Died (1924-01-19)19 January 1924
Thiais, France
Nationality  France
Notable work Illustration, Three Musketeers

Édouard François Zier, born in Paris, 1856, died in Thiais on 19 January 1924,[1] is a French illustrator and painter

Life and works

He received his instructions in art from his father Victor Casimir Zier and later became a pupil of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme.[2]

His first painting, Mort de Caton d'Utique ("Death of Cato") was exhibited at the Salon of 1874.[3][4] Charles VI et Odette appeared at the 1880 Salon,[5] these two paintings and also Esther (1883) were purchased by the French State.[3][6] His Julia (Julie, 1875) on a Roman theme was shown at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition and was awarded a gold medal.[2] [4]

Zier is known foremost however as an illustrator, for a wide variety of genre.[1]

He has illustrated for a number of periodicals, such as L'Illustration, Le Monde illustré,[3] Le Courrier français, Le Journal de la jeunesse.

Two of the adventures of the comic book series Bécassine (1917 and 1918) were illustrated by Zier while the original artist Joseph-Porphyre Pinchon served in World War I.[7][8]

A number of published books were illustrated by him, such as The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas,[1][9] Aphrodite by Pierre Louÿs,[3][10] Le Roman comique by Scarron,[3] La cantiniére du XIIIe siècle by Georges Le Faure,[10] Les Trésors de la fable by Auguste Louvet, Voyages et aventures du Capitaine Marius Cougourdan by Eugène Mouton,[11] Seulette and Le Trésor de Madeleine by Pierre Maël,[11] A l'abordage by Henry de Brisay,[12] Papillonne by Zénaïde Fleuriot.[13]

References

Citations
  1. 1 2 3 "Édouard ZIER (1856-19 janvier 1924)". Revue des lectures. 12: 101. 1924.
  2. 1 2 Bélina, A. M. de (1883), "Édouard Zier", Nos peintres dessinés par eux mèmes, Paris: E. Bernard et cie, pp. 123–124
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Uzanne (1903)
  4. 1 2 Clement, Clara Erskine; Hutton, Laurence (1879), Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works, 2, Trübner, p. 372
  5. ↑ Michelez, G. (photographer). "Charles VI et Odette". albums de photographies dits "des Salons". Archives nationales, site de Pierrefitte-sur-Seine. p. folio 19. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  6. ↑ "Notes on Art and Archaeology". The Academy. 17: 464. 19 June 1880.
  7. ↑ Antoine Court, Regards populaires sur l'Anglo-Saxon : drôles de types, publications de l'université de Saint-Etienne, 2003, ISBN 2-86272-273-1, p. 196
  8. ↑ Cirella-Urrutia, Anne (2015), Tholas-Disset, Clémentine; Ritzenhoff, Karen A., eds., "World War I in Bande Dessinée: La Semaine de Suzette and th Birth of a Breton Heroine at War!", Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 372 , endnote 4
  9. ↑ Megías (2007), p. 57.
  10. 1 2 Megías (2007), p. 61.
  11. 1 2 Megías (2007), p. 63.
  12. ↑ Megías (2007), p. 67.
  13. ↑ Megías (2007), p. 68.
Bibliography

  • Uzanne, Joseph (1903), "Édouard Zier", Figures contemporaines tirées de l'Album Mariani, 8, Paris: Henry Floury available at Gallica
  • Megías, José Manuel Lucía (2007), El "Quijote" inédito de Édouard Zier: una mirada recuperada, SIAL Ediciones (in Spanish)


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.