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Portrait of August Edouart, 19th century

Auguste Amant Constant Fidèle Edouart (1789–1861) was a French-born portrait artist who worked in England, Scotland and the United States in the 19th century. He specialised in silhouette portraits.

Biography

Born in Dunkerque, he left France in 1814, and established himself in London, where he began his career making portraits from hair. In 1825, he began work as a silhouette portraitist, taking full-length likenesses in profile by cutting out black paper with scissors. Edouart spent fifteen years touring England and in 1829 arrived in Edinburgh. He remained there for three years, during which time he produced some 5,000 likenesses.[1] Edouart travelled in the United States in about 1839–49, visiting New York, Boston and other locales.

He later returned to France, where he worked on smaller silhouettes. They included one of the most notable writers of this period, Victor Hugo.[2][3][4]

Portraits

Edouart created portraits of hundreds of subjects, including:

Image gallery

Collections

Works by Edouart reside in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London; National Galleries of Scotland; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; New York Historical Society;[16] Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Historic New England; and the American Jewish Historical Society, New York.

Exhibitions

The Art of the Silhouette in 19th-century Cork, which included works by Edouart, Stephen O’Driscoll (c.1825-1895), and miniature portraits of members of the Crawford Family, was held at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork in 2015.

"Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now", which included works by Edouart, Moses Williams, and others, held at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. May 31, 2018 to March 10, 2019, and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL, September 28, 2019 to January 12, 2020.

References

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Further reading

  • Edouart. A Treatise on Silhouette Likenesses by Monsieur Edouart, Silhouettist to the French Royal Family, and patronized by His Royal Highness, the late Duke of Gloucester and the principal Nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1835
  • The Man Who Saved His Life by Giving His Body for Dissection. Barre Gazette (Massachusetts); Date: 03-28-1845
  • Andrew W. Tuer. Art of Silhouetting. English illustrated magazine. 1890. Google books
  • Alice Van Leer Carrick. Shades of our ancestors: American profiles and profilists. Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. Google books
  • Andrew Oliver. Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-1844. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1977
  • Шаблон:Cite web

External links

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  1. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  2. Victor Hugo in Guernsey; Canadian Art Publications; Date: January 26, 2011
  3. Ethel Stanwood Bolton. Wax portraits and silhouettes. Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1915. Google books
  4. New York Herald; Date: November 23, 1844
  5. 5,0 5,1 5,2 Historic New England. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  6. 6,0 6,1 6,2 6,3 6,4 Museum of Fine Arts Boston collections Retrieved 2010-09-05
  7. "Connell, John, David, Arthur and Mrs. Approx. 5 ½" x 8" cut by August Edouart in Glasgow, June 10, 1832. Reproduced for the Boston Evening Transcript. Sat. Nov. 4, 1939." American Antiquarian Society Шаблон:Webarchive. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  8. 8,0 8,1 8,2 National Galleries Scotland Шаблон:Webarchive. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  9. 9,0 9,1 9,2 9,3 Шаблон:Cite journal
  10. Flickr. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  11. Шаблон:Citation
  12. Шаблон:Cite web
  13. Mack and Mack. Like a sponge thrown into water: Francis Lieber's European travel journal of 1844-1845. University of South Carolina Press, 2002
  14. Smithsonian. Retrieved 2010-09-05
  15. Шаблон:Cite web
  16. NY Historical Society Шаблон:Webarchive. Retrieved 2010-09-05