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[[File:Troncet-Selfportrait?.jpg|thumb|185px|Presumed Self-portrait (1919)]]
[[File:Troncet-Lake.jpg|thumb|300px|On the Lake Shore]]
'''Félix Maurice Antony Troncet''' (23 May 1879, [[Buzançais]] - 26 March 1939, [[Paris]]) was a French [[watercolorist]], [[pastel]]ist, engraver and illustrator. He is best remembered for portraits, nudes and [[Genre art|genre]] scenes.
== Biography ==
He studied in Paris at the [[École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts]] and at the [[Académie Julian]], with [[Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant]] and [[Jean-Paul Laurens]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/33v5F9V "Troncet, Antony"] in the ''Dictionnaire Bénézit'', @ Oxford Index</ref>
On several occasions he competed, unsuccessfully, for the [[Prix de Rome]], but received honorable mentions. In 1914, his portrait of [[Marie Bonaparte]] was given critical praise at the [[Salon (Paris)|Salon]]. During [[World War I]], he was assigned to the Camouflage Service, together with many prominent artists.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3fssNYY Fiche matricule], Paris Archives</ref>
After 1921, he became a regular contributor to the Salon; mostly with genre pieces, featuring young ladies, as well as a portrait of his mother (1926). His nude "On the Lake Shore", also attracted some attention, followed by a series of pastel nudes in the 1930s. On a more serious note, he received critical praise for his portrait of Marshall [[Louis Franchet d'Espèrey]] in 1932
He also wrote some poetry.<ref>[https://ift.tt/31btVuB ''La Nouvelle Revue'', 1919, p. 366], [[Gallica]].</ref>. Although most of it has been given attention, he was awarded the [[Jules Lefèvre-Deumier|Prix Lefèvre-Deumier]] in 1934 for ''Ut pictura poesis'', a series of poems about "forgotten" artists.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2XjeaR8 ''Journal officiel'', 1 January 1934], [[Gallica]].</ref>
His works may be seen at the , as well as in the United States at the [[Minneapolis Institute of Art]].
== References ==
== External links ==
* [https://ift.tt/33jxjWX Site Antony Troncet], homepage
* [https://ift.tt/3gp7jxo "Antony Troncet"] @ Cat’zArts.
* [[Paul Hervieu]], [https://ift.tt/2D1zsfx ''L'Exorcisée'', illustrations after the watercolors of Antony Troncet], Catalogue BnF
* [[Henri Bernstein]], [https://ift.tt/318zutX ''Le Détour'', illustrations after the designs of Renefer and Troncet]
* Gallica Bnf [https://ift.tt/33h7nvl Catalogue du musée de Châteauroux].
[[Category:1879 births]]
[[Category:1939 deaths]]
[[Category:French painters]]
[[Category:French watercolourists]]
[[Category:Pastel artists]]
[[Category:Nude art]]
[[Category:French portrait painters]]
[[Category:People from Indre]]
[[File:Troncet-Lake.jpg|thumb|300px|On the Lake Shore]]
'''Félix Maurice Antony Troncet''' (23 May 1879, [[Buzançais]] - 26 March 1939, [[Paris]]) was a French [[watercolorist]], [[pastel]]ist, engraver and illustrator. He is best remembered for portraits, nudes and [[Genre art|genre]] scenes.
== Biography ==
He studied in Paris at the [[École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts]] and at the [[Académie Julian]], with [[Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant]] and [[Jean-Paul Laurens]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/33v5F9V "Troncet, Antony"] in the ''Dictionnaire Bénézit'', @ Oxford Index</ref>
On several occasions he competed, unsuccessfully, for the [[Prix de Rome]], but received honorable mentions. In 1914, his portrait of [[Marie Bonaparte]] was given critical praise at the [[Salon (Paris)|Salon]]. During [[World War I]], he was assigned to the Camouflage Service, together with many prominent artists.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3fssNYY Fiche matricule], Paris Archives</ref>
After 1921, he became a regular contributor to the Salon; mostly with genre pieces, featuring young ladies, as well as a portrait of his mother (1926). His nude "On the Lake Shore", also attracted some attention, followed by a series of pastel nudes in the 1930s. On a more serious note, he received critical praise for his portrait of Marshall [[Louis Franchet d'Espèrey]] in 1932
He also wrote some poetry.<ref>[https://ift.tt/31btVuB ''La Nouvelle Revue'', 1919, p. 366], [[Gallica]].</ref>. Although most of it has been given attention, he was awarded the [[Jules Lefèvre-Deumier|Prix Lefèvre-Deumier]] in 1934 for ''Ut pictura poesis'', a series of poems about "forgotten" artists.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2XjeaR8 ''Journal officiel'', 1 January 1934], [[Gallica]].</ref>
His works may be seen at the , as well as in the United States at the [[Minneapolis Institute of Art]].
== References ==
== External links ==
* [https://ift.tt/33jxjWX Site Antony Troncet], homepage
* [https://ift.tt/3gp7jxo "Antony Troncet"] @ Cat’zArts.
* [[Paul Hervieu]], [https://ift.tt/2D1zsfx ''L'Exorcisée'', illustrations after the watercolors of Antony Troncet], Catalogue BnF
* [[Henri Bernstein]], [https://ift.tt/318zutX ''Le Détour'', illustrations after the designs of Renefer and Troncet]
* Gallica Bnf [https://ift.tt/33h7nvl Catalogue du musée de Châteauroux].
[[Category:1879 births]]
[[Category:1939 deaths]]
[[Category:French painters]]
[[Category:French watercolourists]]
[[Category:Pastel artists]]
[[Category:Nude art]]
[[Category:French portrait painters]]
[[Category:People from Indre]]
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