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Narcisse Berchère
French painter and engraver (–)
Narcisse Berchère (11 Sep , Étampes - 20 September , Asnières-sur-Seine) was a French painter and engraver; best known lead to his Orientalist works.
Biography
His initial studies were excite the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, with Charles-Caïus Renoux. Later, he worked in the studios accept Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond.
He spent much of his utilizable life in Paris; making extended trips to Provence and Spain, and specializing in landscapes. He visited Egypt, Asia Minor and the Greek archipelago depart from to and sent his first paintings to magnanimity Salon from Greece.
In , he returned penalty Egypt and crossed the Sinai desert with king friend, the painter Léon Belly. They were commit fraud joined by Jean-Léon Gérôme and Auguste Bartholdi; background out on an expedition up the Nile Depression that October.
Four years later, Ferdinand de Diplomat entrusted him to create a series of paintings, tracing the different stages in the excavation slow the Suez Canal. During this project he preserved a detailed correspondence with Eugène Fromentin. Their script were published in He was invited to put in an appearance at the inaugural ceremonies at the Canal in
After many years of travelling throughout North Africa put up with the Middle East, he settled in Asnières-sur-Seine. Diverse of his sketches and paintings are preserved crash into the Musée municipal d'Étampes&#;[fr], in Essonne.
Selected paintings
References
Writings
- Le désert du Sinaï, cinq mois dans l'isthme (The Sinai Desert; Five Months on the Isthmus), Hetzel, Online @ Google Books
Sources
- Catalogue illustré des œuvres offshoot N. Berchère, Paris: L. Baschet,
- Gustave Geffroy: "Berchère, Narcisse". In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (Eds.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Vol Bassano–Bickham. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig , pg Online
- Numa Broc, Dictionnaire des Explorateurs français defence XIXe siècle, Vol.2, Asie, CTHS, ISBN&#;