Alfred Agache (painter)

This article is about Alfred Agache the painter. For the architect of the same name, see Alfred Agache (architect).
Alfred Agache

Alfred Agache, c. 1890 – 1900

Alfred Agache, c. 1890 – 1900
Born 29 August 1843 (1843-08-29)
Lille, France
Died 15 September 1915 (1915-09-16) (aged 72)
Lille, France
Occupation Painter

Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache (French: [alfʁɛd aɡaʃ]; 29 August 1843 – 15 September 1915), also known simply as Alfred Agache, was a French academic painter.

Biography

Vanity

Little is known of Agache's life. He was born in Lille, France, and exhibited his work frequently in Paris until his death. He seems to have specialized in portraits and large-scale allegorical paintings. He was a member of the Société des Artistes Français, and won a third-class medal in 1885 for his work. He may have been friends with American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler[1] and French writer Auguste Angellier; the latter dedicated a book to him around 1893.[2]

Two of his pieces, "Vanity" and "The Annunciation", were shown at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur.[3]

Young woman with flowers

He died in Lille in 1915.

"L'Épée"

Alfred Agache, "L'Épée" (The Sword) 1896, Art Gallery of Ontario

One of these paintings, L'Épée (French, "The Sword"), painted in 1896, includes the Latin phrase "PRO IUSTITIA TANTUM" ("On behalf of Justice Only") to represent that violence should be used only by Justice. It was displayed at the Paris Salon that year. It was purchased by the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in 1916 from an exhibition of paintings that were currently on loan from France. Following the CNE's decision in 1938 to cease collecting and exhibiting European art, the painting (with other French works) was loaned to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO); in the mid-1960s these works were formally donated to the AGO. This painting remained in the AGO's vaults until the early 1990s; it was cleaned and restored and displayed in the AGO's Fudger Gallery.

In June 2005, "L'Épée" was included in an exhibition called "Favourites: Your Choices from Our Collection", which displayed works based on votes from the general public from the previous four months.

Partial list of works

References

  1. ↑ at lts.brandeis.edu
  2. ↑ "| eBay". cgi.ebay.fr. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
  3. ↑ "日産の車 » Blog Archive » スポーツカー". legihonneur.org. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
  4. ↑ Société des artistes français. Salon (1882). Le Livre d'or du Salon de peinture et de sculpture: catalogue descriptif. Librarie des Bibliophiles. p. 26. Retrieved 2015-04-13.

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