Édouard François Zier
Édouard François Zier (1856 – 19 January 1924) was a French illustrator and painter.
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Édouard Zier — engraving by Désiré Quesnel | |
Born | Édouard François Zier 1856 Paris, France |
Died | 19 January 1924 67–68) Thiais, France | (aged
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Notable work | Illustration, Three Musketeers |
Life and works
Édouard François Zier was born in Paris in 1856. He received his instructions in art from his father Victor Casimir Zier and later became a pupil of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme.[1]
His first painting, Mort de Caton d'Utique ("Death of Cato") was exhibited at the Salon of 1874.[2][3] Charles VI et Odette appeared at the 1880 Salon,[4] these two paintings and also Esther (1883) were purchased by the French State.[2][5] His Julia (Julie, 1875) on a Roman theme was shown at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition and was awarded a gold medal.[1] [3]
Zier is known foremost however as an illustrator, for a wide variety of genre.[6]
He has illustrated for a number of periodicals, such as L'Illustration, Le Monde illustré,[2] Le Courrier français, Le Journal de la jeunesse.
Two of the adventures of the comic book series Bécassine (1917 and 1918) were illustrated by Zier while the original artist Joseph-Porphyre Pinchon served in World War I.[7][8]
A number of published books were illustrated by him, such as The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas,[6][9] Aphrodite by Pierre Louÿs,[2][10] Le Roman comique by Scarron,[2] La cantiniére du XIIIe siècle by Georges Le Faure,[10] Les Trésors de la fable by Auguste Louvet, Voyages et aventures du Capitaine Marius Cougourdan by Eugène Mouton,[11] Seulette and Le Trésor de Madeleine by Pierre Maël,[11] A l'abordage by Henry de Brisay,[12] Papillonne by Zénaïde Fleuriot.[13]
Gallery
- Acis et Galatée, Acis and Galatea hide from Polyphemus
1877 - Portrait idéal
1903 - Les Baigneuses à Biarritz
References
- Citations
- Bélina, A. M. de (1883), "Édouard Zier", Nos peintres dessinés par eux mèmes, Paris: E. Bernard et cie, pp. 123–124
- Uzanne (1903)
- Clement, Clara Erskine; Hutton, Laurence (1879), Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works, 2, Trübner, p. 372
- Michelez, G. (photographer). "Charles VI et Odette". albums de photographies dits "des Salons". Archives nationales, site de Pierrefitte-sur-Seine. p. folio 19. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- "Notes on Art and Archaeology". The Academy. 17: 464. 19 June 1880.
- "Édouard ZIER (1856-19 janvier 1924)". Revue des lectures. 12: 101. 1924.
- Antoine Court, Regards populaires sur l'Anglo-Saxon : drôles de types, publications de l'université de Saint-Etienne, 2003, ISBN 2-86272-273-1, p. 196
- Cirella-Urrutia, Anne (2015), Tholas-Disset, Clémentine; Ritzenhoff, Karen A. (eds.), "World War I in Bande Dessinée: La Semaine de Suzette and th Birth of a Breton Heroine at War!", Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 372, endnote 4
- Megías (2007), p. 57.
- Megías (2007), p. 61.
- Megías (2007), p. 63.
- Megías (2007), p. 67.
- Megías (2007), p. 68.
- Bibliography
- Uzanne, Joseph (1903), "Édouard Zier", Figures contemporaines tirées de l'Album Mariani, 8, Paris: Henry Floury available at Gallica
- Megías, José Manuel Lucía (2007), El "Quijote" inédito de Édouard Zier: una mirada recuperada, SIAL Ediciones (in Spanish)