Emile Munier

French Academic Painter, 1840-1895
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essai de leau
Emile Munier
Item ID:34592
the peacock fan
Emile Munier
Item ID:34593
may i have one too
Emile Munier
Item ID:34594
her best friend
Emile Munier
Item ID:34595
portrait of a mother and daughter
Emile Munier
Item ID:34596
love disarmed
Emile Munier
Item ID:34597
autrefois
Emile Munier
Item ID:34598
pardon mama
Emile Munier
Item ID:34599
young girl with goat and flowers
Emile Munier
Item ID:34600
les confitures
Emile Munier
Item ID:34601
mother and child
Emile Munier
Item ID:34602
playing with the kitten
Emile Munier
Item ID:34603
girls praying
Emile Munier
Item ID:34604
Le Sauvetage
Emile Munier
Item ID:34605
A Sprig Of Flowers
Emile Munier
Item ID:34606
Deux Filles Avec Un Panier De Chatons
Emile Munier
Item ID:34607
La Grande Soeur
Emile Munier
Item ID:34608
La Jeune Paysanne
Emile Munier
Item ID:34609
La Lettre
Emile Munier
Item ID:34610
Sugar And Spice
Emile Munier
Item ID:34611
The Broken Vas
Emile Munier
Item ID:34612
The Favorite Kitten
Emile Munier
Item ID:34613
The Peacock Fan II
Emile Munier
Item ID:34614
distracting the baby
Emile Munier
Item ID:34615
la baigneuse
Emile Munier
Item ID:34616
reading lesson
Emile Munier
Item ID:34617
Young Girl with Lamb
Emile Munier
Item ID:34618
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Biography
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Emile Munier (June 2, 1840 – June 29, 1895) was a French academic artist and student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Emile Munier was born in Paris and lived with his family at 66 rue des Fossés, St. Marcel. His father, Pierre François Munier, was an artist upholsterer at the Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins and his mother, Marie Louise Carpentier, was a polisher in a cashmere cloth mill. Emile and his two brothers, François and Florimond, were gifted artists and each spent some time at the Gobelins. During Emile's training he developed a close relationship with his professor Abel Lucas and his family. He eventually married Abel's daughter Henriette. During the 1860s, Munier received three medals at the Beaux-Arts and in 1869 he exhibited at the Paris Salon. He became a great supporter of the Academic ideals and a follower of Bouguereau, whose subject matter would be an important inspiration to the young Munier. In 1867, Henriette gave birth to a son, Emile Henri. Six weeks after the birth, having contracted severe rheumatism, Henriette died prematurely. In 1871, Munier abandoned his career as an upholsterer and devoted his time solely to painting; he also began teaching classes to adults three nights a week. Sargine Augrand, a student of Abel Lucas and a close friend of Emile and Henriette (before she died), caught Emile’s eye; they married in 1872 and lived in a small apartment and studio. Munier frequented the studio of Bouguereau, and they became friends. In 1885 he painted, and exhibited at the Paris Salon, Trois Amis (Favourite Pets). This painting, representing a chubby girl playing on her bed with a kitten and a dog, was an extremely successful work, being reproduced in many forms and used for publicity posters by Pears Soap. With this work, Emile asserted himself as one of ‘the’ painters of young children and their pets; it was eventually acquired by an American collector. Among his many American patrons were Chapman H. Hyams and his wife, who were important collectors of contemporary French paintings during the 19th century and favored artists like Henner, Bouguereau, Gérôme, Vinel and Schreyer. Munier painted their portrait in 1889, and it, along with much of their collection, is now in the New Orleans Museum of Art. During the 1890s Munier continued to paint peasant, mythological and religious subjects. In 1893 he exhibited L'esprit de la chute d'eau, at the Paris Salon, a nude nymph whom is not unlike Naissance de Vénus by Bouguereau. In 1895 Munier painted La jeune fille et le panier de chatons, but on June 29, a few weeks after his 55th birthday, he died.
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