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19th century painting from Franche Comté - French School - Riverbank - Oil on cardboard signed (FANART Antonin)
FANART Antonin (1831 / 1903)
Riverfront.
Oil on cardboard signed lower left.
Dimensions: Width : 21.6in (55cm) X Height : 14in (36.5cm)
Certificate of authenticity.
FANART Antonin (1831 / 1903)
Riverfront.
Oil on cardboard signed lower left.
Dimensions: Width : 21.6in (55cm) X Height : 14in (36.5cm)
Certificate of authenticity.
Data sheet
- Width
- 55 cm / 21.6 in
- Height
- 36.5 cm / 14 in
Specific References
Biography
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FANART Antonin (1831 / 1903)
Antonin FANART, born January 17, 1831 in Besançon (Doubs) and died in the same city on September 2, 1903, is a French painter.
Born into a lower-middle-class family in Bison, Antonin Fanart left for Switzerland in 1849 to study art and painting in Geneva.
A landscape painter, he travels a lot in Switzerland, Savoie and Franche-Comté, regions from which he draws the subjects of several of his works. His first exhibition took place in 1854 in Geneva, before exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1857.
Shortly after, he created a newspaper called Le Doubs, firmly opposing the Second Empire.
He became the sub-prefect of Montbéliard at the fall of the Empire (1871).
Antonin Fanart returned to live in Besançon, the city where he was a municipal councilor, after his marriage in 1866.
He founded the Granvelle Palace Museum as well as the “Comtoise Union of Decorative Arts” before dying of heart disease on September 2, 1903, in the town where he was born.
A street in Besançon bears his name, in the Montrapon-Fontaine-Écu district.
Public collections: Museum of Fine Arts of Dole, Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology of Besançon.
