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Eugène Henri Alexlandre Chigot BIOGRAPHY
1860 Valenciennes, France - 1923 Paris, France. Known for: Impressionist and realist painting of landscapes, marine, coastal views, garden scenes.
Eugène Henri Alexandre Chigot (1860 - 1923) was a post impressionist French painter. A pupil of his father, the military painter Alphonse Chigot, in 1881 he entered the internationally renowned École... Read full biography
Eugène Henri Alexandre Chigot (1860 - 1923) was a post impressionist French painter. A pupil of his father, the military painter Alphonse Chigot, in 1881 he entered the internationally renowned École des Beaux-Arts* in Paris where he was exposed to the ideas of the realist movement of the Barbizon... Read full biography
Eugène Henri Alexandre Chigot (1860 - 1923) was a post impressionist French painter. A pupil of his father, the military painter Alphonse Chigot, in 1881 he entered the internationally renowned École des Beaux-Arts* in Paris where he was exposed to the ideas of the realist movement of the Barbizon School* and to Impressionism. He settled in Étaples in the Pas-de-Calais in an artists’ colony, later returning to Paris where he became a founder of the Salon d’Automne*. An official military painter... Read full biography
Eugène Henri Alexandre Chigot (1860 - 1923) was a post impressionist French painter. A pupil of his father, the military painter Alphonse Chigot, in 1881 he entered the internationally renowned École des Beaux-Arts* in Paris where he was exposed to the ideas of the realist movement of the Barbizon School* and to Impressionism. He settled in Étaples in the Pas-de-Calais in an artists’ colony, later returning to Paris where he became a founder of the Salon d’Automne*. An official military painter he painted a series of canvases in Calais and Nieuport recording the destruction caused by the First World War. Chigot’s reputation was built on his maritime and landscape paintings that arose from his affinity to Flanders and the Pas-de-Calais. He... Read full biography
Eugène Henri Alexandre Chigot (1860 - 1923) was a post impressionist French painter. A pupil of his father, the military painter Alphonse Chigot, in 1881 he entered the internationally renowned École des Beaux-Arts* in Paris where he was exposed to the ideas of the realist movement of the Barbizon School* and to Impressionism. He settled in Étaples in the Pas-de-Calais in an artists’ colony, later returning to Paris where he became a founder of the Salon d’Automne*. An official military painter he painted a series of canvases in Calais and Nieuport recording the destruction caused by the First World War. Chigot’s reputation was built on his maritime and landscape paintings that arose from his affinity to Flanders and the Pas-de-Calais. He recorded the lives of the people of Flanders placing them within a landscape of soft opalescent light. Later his paintings show traces o... Read full biography
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Eugène Henri Alexandre Chigot (1860 - 1923) was a post impressionist French painter. A pupil of his father, the military painter Alphonse Chigot, in 1881 he entered the internationally renowned École des Beaux-Arts* in Paris where he was exposed to the ideas of the realist movement of the Barbizon School* and to Impressionism.
He settled in Étaples in the Pas-de-Calais in an artists’ colony, later returning to Paris where he became a founder of the Salon d’Automne*. An official military painter he painted a series of canvases in Calais and Nieuport recording the destruction caused by the First World War.
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