Henri Adrien Tanoux

Antoine Auguste Adrien Henri Tanoux (18 October 1865, Marseille - 29 July 1923, Paris) was a French painter.

Henri Adrien Tanoux (1887)

Biography

He began his studies in 1878 at the École supérieure d'art et de design Marseille-Méditerranée.[1] After graduating there, in 1886, he enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, where he became a student of Léon Bonnat.[2]

During this time, he presented some works at the at the Salon. He would exhibit there regularly throughout his life. In 1889, he received an honorable mention at the Exposition Universelle.[3]

He was initially attracted to painting scenes in the outlying suburbs but, after receiving a travel grant from the Conseil supérieur des Beaux-Arts in 1895, he turned to genre scenes, portraits and Orientalist works; becoming especially well known for his nudes. In 1905, he was elected a member of the Société des artistes français.[4]

Nymphs In A Forest
Diana

A major retrospective of his work was held in 1924.[5]

His works may be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry, Musée de Grenoble, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, Musée Cantini, Musée de la Faïence et des Beaux-Arts, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, among others.

  • (1905)
  • The maid, 1892
  • Weiblicher Akt in Waldlandschaft, 1903
  • 1905
  • The sultan's favourite
  • Rêverie
  • (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes)

References
  1. Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivans, Vol.3 L - Z, Gründ, 1939 Online
  2. J. P. A. Akoun, Répertoire biographique d'artistes de tous pays des xixe et xxe siècles, Cote de l’amateur, 2005 ISBN 978-2-85917-429-3
  3. Raymond Bouyer, "Rétrospectives" in: La Revue de l’art ancien et moderne, Vol.46, 1924, Georges Petit
  4. "Tanoux (Henri-Adrien)", Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, Vol. III L-Z , 1939 Online
  5. "Nouvelles artistiques", in: La Liberté, Vol.59, November 1924, Online

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