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Edmond Tapissier

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[[File:Edmond Tapissier - La Dentellière 1889.jpg|thumb|215px|The Lacemaker]]
[[File:Edmond Tapissier - Bergère et son troupeau au repos.jpg|thumb|275px|Shepherdess and Her Flock at Rest]]
'''Edmond Antoine Anne Tapissier''' (14 June 1861, [[Lyon]] - 27 April 1943, [[Treignac]])<ref>[https://ift.tt/2V51UTp Archives municipales de Lyon en ligne, naissances 1861 1er arrondissement, acte n°649 du 15/06/1861, vue 112/229]</ref> was a Frnch painter, illustrator, [[lithographer]] and [[tapestry]] designer.

== Biography==
His father was a silk merchant. He first studied in Lyon under . He then went to Paris and enrolled at the [[Académie Colarossi]], followed by the [[École des beaux-arts de Paris]], where he studied with [[Alexandre Cabanel]] and [[Fernand Cormon]]. While there, in 1902, he married Jeanne Bonin (1880-1952), from Treignac.

In 1908, he exhibited at the [[Salon des artistes français]] and was awarded a bronze medal. He held a major exhibition at the [[International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts]] in 1925.<ref>[https://ift.tt/37PirjG Press release for the International Center for Tapestry and Woven Art]</ref>.

He created numerous illustrations for children's books; notably '''', which would now be racially questionable, published in 1908 under the pseudonym "Rose Candide". He also illustrated fables by [[Charles Perrault]] and produced caricatures for ''[[Le Petit Journal (newspaper)|Le Petit Journal]]'' during [[World War I]].

An avid traveller, he visited Russia, Italy, Greece, the Middle East and Turkey. He became an official painter for the Navy in 1918, and was named a Knight in the [[Legion of Honor]] in 1927.<ref>[https://ift.tt/37LpQQK Documentation] @ the [[Base Leonore]]</ref>

In addition to his paintings and drawings, he created tapestry designs for The [[Beauvais Manufactory]] and the [[Manufacture des Gobelins]], as well as decorating some churches and town halls.

A number of his works may be seen at the [[Château de Nemours|Château-Musée de Nemours]].

== References ==


== Further reading==
* Anne Tapissier, ''Edmond Tapissier'', Edition Riccobono, Draquignan 1972

== External links ==

*[https://ift.tt/2Ndb77M Biographical notes] @ Aurorae Libri
*[https://ift.tt/2NmI6q9 More works by Tapissier] @ ArtNet




[[Category:1861 births]]
[[Category:1943 deaths]]
[[Category:French painters]]
[[Category:French genre painters]]
[[Category:French illustrators]]
[[Category:French lithographers]]
[[Category:French tapestry artists]]
[[Category:People from Lyon]]


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