ArtistAnastasi, Auguste Paul Charles

Artist Years1820-1889

Artist NationalityFrench

TitleDraw Bridge and Mill

Yearca. 1860

MediumPainting > Oil

Dimensions5.7 X 10.7 inches

NotesAuguste Anastasi born in Paris on November 15, 1820 was a French landscape painter of the Barbizon School. Anastasi was a student of Paul Delaroche and Jean-Baptiste Corot. He entered the Paris School of Fine Arts on May 5, 1849 and debuted at the Salon of 1843. He obtained a 2nd class medal at the Salon of 1848 for a landscape, and a 3rd class medal at the Salon of 1865 for a lithography. He painted landscapes around Paris, Normandy, Holland and Italy, especially in Rome and Naples, but also in Tyrol, of which he also made lithographs. Auguste Anastasi contributed lithographs for the magazines L'Artiste and Les Artistes Contemporains after Rosa Bonheur, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Isabey and Théodore Rousseau. Afflicted by blindness from 1860, he stopped painting after 1870. His colleagues then organized a lottery whose profits were converted into an annuity; after his death, this annuity was allocated to an indigent artist designated by the Academy of Fine Arts. He had his workshop at no. 12 Rue de Navarin. Anastasi died in Paris 17th on March 15, 1889. He is buried in Paris in the Père-Lachaise cemetery.
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