Antoine Blanchard, (1910-1988 French)
Le Moulin Rouge à Montmartre, c. 1900
Oil on linen canvas
18" H x 21.5" W
Private collection
Moulin Rouge, (French for "Red Mill") is a cabaret in Paris. The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in
1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia.
Close to Montmartre in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in
the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the red windmill on its roof.
Moulin Rouge is best known as the spiritual
birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance. Originally introduced as a
seductive dance by the courtesans who operated from the site, the can-can dance
revue evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the
introduction of cabarets across Europe. Today, the Moulin Rouge is a tourist
attraction, offering musical dance entertainment for visitors from around the
world. The club's decor still contains much of the romance of fin de siècle
France. More on the Moulin Rouge
Antoine Blanchard is the pseudonym under which the
French painter Marcel Masson (15 November 1910 – 1988) painted his
immensely popular Parisian street scenes. He was born in a small village near
the banks of the Loire.
Blanchard
received his initial artistic training at the Beaux-Arts in Rennes, Brittany.
He then moved to Paris in 1932 where he joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won
the Prix de Rome.
Like
Édouard Cortès (1882–1969) and Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941), Antoine
Blanchard essentially painted Paris and the Parisians in bygone days, often
from vintage postcards. The artist began painting his Paris street scenes in
the late 1950s, and like Cortès, often painted the same Paris landmark many
times, in different weather conditions or various seasons. The most recurrent
topics were views of the capital city in cloudy or rainy days, showing streets
busy with pedestrians in a rush to go home, and bright storefronts reflecting
on wet streets.
Antoine Blanchard died in 1988. More on Antoine Blanchard
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