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Emile Munier
Emile Munier (June 2, 1840 - June 29, 1895) was a French oil
painting artist and student of
William-Adolphe
Bouguereau.. During the 1860s, Emile received three medals at the
Beaux-Arts and in 1869 he exhibited at the Paris Salon. Munier
became a great supporter of the Academic ideals and a follower of
Bouguereau, whose subject matter would be an important inspiration
to the young Emile.
In 1885 he painted, and exhibited at the Paris Salon, Trois Amis
(Favourite Pets). This oil painting, representing a chubby girl
playing on her bed with a kitten and a dog, was an extremely
successful work, being reproduced in many forms and used for
publicity posters by Pears Soap. With this work, Emile asserted
himself as one of ?the? painters of young children and their pets;
it was eventually acquired by an American collector.
Among his many American patrons was Chapman H. Hyams, who were
important collectors of contemporary French paintings during the
19th century and favored artists like Henner, Bouguereau, Gérôme,
Vinel and Schreyer. Munier painted their portrait in 1889, and it,
along with much of their collection, is now in the New Orleans
Museum of Art.
In 1895 Munier painted La jeune fille et le panier de chatons, but
on June 29, a few weeks after his 55th birthday, he died.
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