Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Paul Mathey

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[[File:Paul Mathey - Fille en matelot.jpg||thumb|<center>Girl as a sailor</center>]]

'''Paul Victor Mathey''' (14 November 1844 – 24 November 1929) was a French painter and [[Engraving|engraver]].<ref>[http://bit.ly/2GarLmj Paul Mathey (1844 - 1929)] on brierhillgallery.com</ref>

== Biography ==
Born in Paris, the son of a [[Painting conservation|restorer]], Mathey learned his art at the [[École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts]] of Paris in painters [[Léon Cogniet]]'s, [[Isidore Pils]]'s and [[Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle]]'s workshops. He began to exhibit at the [[Salon (Paris)|Salon de Paris]] in 1868, and became a valued and recognized [[Portrait painting|portrait painter]]. He has several times portrayed artists from his entourage in their studios.

Especially a portrait painter, Mathey did not, however, refrain from landscape, seascapes, lived scenes or decoration. In his forty-fifth year, at the time of the struggle between reproducers and originals, he had the idea of starting engraving. The Comité des Artistes français, of which he was no longer a member, contested the title of engravers to those who did not work on the work of others. They wanted to exclude them from the Salon, and at least from the rewards. Mathey opened [[Maxime Lalanne]]'s ''Traité de gravure à l'eau-forte'', took the technical information he needed, fetched a sketch from his notebooks and engraved it. It was a portrait of his father, whom he had drawn about ten years earlier.<ref>|title=Paul Mathey graveur|journal=L’Art et les artistes : revue mensuelle d’art ancien et moderne|volume=5|issue=29|date=1921-10|pages=271-5|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58625443/f298|accessdate = 30 January 2019}}.</ref>

His work has been crowned several times. He was presented with a 3rd class medal at the 1876 Salon, a 2nd class medal at the 1885 Salon, and a gold medal at the [[Exposition Universelle (1889)]]. Finally, he was decorated with the [[Legion of Honour]], 29 October 1889.<ref></ref>

Mathey died in the [[7th arrondissement of Paris]] at age 85.

== Works in public collections ==
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[[File:Paul Mathey - Felicien Rops in his Studio.jpg|thumb|''[[Félicien Rops]] in his workshop'' (circa 1888), [[Palace of Versailles]].]]
* [[Brest (France)|Brest]], :
** ''Portrait du peintre Alfred Rubé, décorateur de l'Opéra'', oil on canvas.<ref>This portrait and the following ones were added to the collections of the Brest Museum of Fine Arts thanks to a donation in 1976</ref><ref>[http://bit.ly/2FXabTA flickr.com]</ref>
** ''Portrait de Mme Paul Mathey'', oil on canvas.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2G7Qnfg flickr.com]</ref>
** ''Portrait de Mlle Marthe Mathey au petit chien'', oil on canvas.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2FXaOMW flickr.com]</ref>
** ''Le Mélomane, portrait du père de l'artiste'', oil on canvas.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2G7QozQ flickr.com]</ref>
** ''Portrait du frère Joseph'', oil on canvas.
* [[Évreux]], : ''Bord de mer'', drawing.
*[[Gray (Haute-Saône)|Gray]],
**''La Plage'', oil on wood, (49 x 65 cm)
**''Portrait de mademoiselle Legout-Gérard'', oil on canvas, last quarter of the 19th century, (35 x 24,5 cm).
* [[Le Havre]], [[Museum of modern art André Malraux - MuMa|Museum of modern art André Malraux]]: ''Un Pré - Baie de Concarneau'', oil on canvas.
* Paris:
** : an album of about a hundred sketches.
** [[Musée d'Orsay]]:
*** ''Enfant et femme dans un intérieur'',<ref>[http://bit.ly/2FXaPAu ''Woman and Child in an Interior'']</ref> oil on canvas
*** ''Fernande Mathey sur la plage'', oil on canvas
*** ''Pierre Mathey'', father of the artist, oil on canvas
* Versailles, :
** ''[[Félicien Rops]] in his workshop'', oil on canvas
** ''[[René de Saint-Marceaux]]'', oil on canvas.

== Galery ==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Works by Paul Mathey">
File:Ernest Ange Duez by Paul Mathey.jpg|''Portrait of [[Ernest Ange Duez]]'' (1876), [[Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras]].
File:Georges Clairin by Paul Mathey.jpg|''Portrait of painter [[Georges Clairin]]'', .
File:Paul Mathey - Portrait of Pierre Mathey.jpg|''Portrait of Pierre Mathey'' (before 1887), Paris, [[Musée d'Orsay]].
File:Paul Mathey - Woman and Child in an Interior.jpg|''Enfant et femme dans un intérieur'' (circa 1890), Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
File:Mathey portrait peintre Rubé.jpg|''Portrait of the painter [[Auguste Alfred Rubé]], decorator of the [[Palais Garnier]]'', Musée des beaux-arts de Brest.
</gallery>

== References ==


== External links ==

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* [http://bit.ly/2G7Qp6S Dossier de Légion d'honneur du peintre Paul Mathey.]
* [http://bit.ly/2FXaRbA Paul Mathey, ''Les mendiants'']





[[Category:1844 births]]
[[Category:1929 deaths]]
[[Category:Artists from Paris]]
[[Category:19th-century French painters]]
[[Category:20th-century French painters]]
[[Category:French portrait painters]]
[[Category:Alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts]]
[[Category:Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur]]


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