Paul Quinsac
Nymphs in the Forest
François Paul Auguste Quinsac (2 March 1858, Bordeaux – May 1929, Bordeaux)[1][2] was a French painter.
Quinsac was a painter of the French School known as Academic art, a specialist in mythological and allegorical subjects, figures and landscapes. He studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme and later he became professor at the School of Fine Arts of Bordeaux (École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux).
From 1880 he exhibited regularly to the Hall of the French Artists of which he became a member in 1887. He received an honourable mention during the exhibition of 1884, a medal of third class to the World Fair of 1889, as well as a travel grant. He was named Chevalier de la légion d’Honneur in 1903. He died in Bordeaux in May 1929, aged 71.[3]
References
- ↑ "Paul François Quinsac" Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, H cotation (in French)
- ↑ "Quinsac, Paul François" Archived 2014-02-28 at the Wayback Machine, Fine Arts Ltd
- ↑ Announcement of the death of Paul Quinsac, in Le Figaro, 16 May 1929
External links
Media related to Paul Quinsac at Wikimedia Commons- Quinsac's painting Moulin de la Galette
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