Marie Auguste Emile-Rene Menard - Artist Info

About Marie Auguste Emile-Rene Menard

Name variants

Emile-Rene Menard, Rene Menard
  • Biography

    Émile-René Ménard (1862–1930) was a French painter born in Paris. From early childhood he was immersed in an artistic environment: Corot, Millet and the Barbizon painters frequented his family home, familiarizing him thus with both landscape and antique subjects.

    Ménard studied at the Académie Julian from 1880 after having been a student of Paul-Jacques Baudry, William Bouguereau, and Henri Lehmann. Menard participated in the Salon of the Secession in Munich, and the Salon de la Libre Esthétique in Brussels during 1897. Several personal exhibitions were also devoted to him at the Georges Small Gallery.

    In 1904, he was appointed professor at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1921 he exhibited in the Twelfth Salon along w...

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