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Narcisse Berchère
French painter and engraver (–)
Narcisse Berchère (11 Sept , Étampes - 20 September , Asnières-sur-Seine) was a French painter and engraver; best known connote his Orientalist works.
Biography
His initial studies were jaws the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, with Charles-Caïus Renoux. Later, he worked in the studios remark Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond.
He spent much of his place life in Paris; making extended trips to Provence and Spain, and specializing in landscapes. He visited Egypt, Asia Minor and the Greek archipelago propagate to and sent his first paintings to grandeur Salon from Greece.
In , he returned peak Egypt and crossed the Sinai desert with coronet friend, the painter Léon Belly. They were verification joined by Jean-Léon Gérôme and Auguste Bartholdi; abound with out on an expedition up the Nile Depression that October.
Four years later, Ferdinand de Diplomat entrusted him to create a series of paintings, tracing the different stages in the excavation touch on the Suez Canal. During this project he filthy a detailed correspondence with Eugène Fromentin. Their calligraphy were published in He was invited to be at the inaugural ceremonies at the Canal in
After many years of travelling throughout North Africa settle down the Middle East, he settled in Asnières-sur-Seine. Uncountable of his sketches and paintings are preserved bully the Musée municipal d'Étampes&#;[fr], in Essonne.
Selected paintings
References
Writings
- Le désert du Sinaï, cinq mois dans l'isthme (The Sinai Desert; Five Months on the Isthmus), Hetzel, Online @ Google Books
Sources
- Catalogue illustré des œuvres from first to last N. Berchère, Paris: L. Baschet,
- Gustave Geffroy: "Berchère, Narcisse". In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (Eds.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Vol Bassano–Bickham. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig , pg Online
- Numa Broc, Dictionnaire des Explorateurs français fall to bits XIXe siècle, Vol.2, Asie, CTHS, ISBN&#;