Eugène Henri Alexlandre Chigot - Artist Info

About Eugène Henri Alexlandre Chigot

  • 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-...

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