![]() Le Labour was included in the first exhibition, which opened on August 27 in the courtyard of a local school. This organization would prove to be an important forum for Cortès throughout his life, both as a gathering place for visual artists and as an exhibition venue in Lagny. Shortly after the close of the 1899 Paris Salon exhibition, Marie-Edmond Höner (1830-1900), a painter and lithographer based in Lagny, decided to create a local artistic society to that end, he founded the Union Artistique et Littéraraire du Canton de Lagny with the goal of establishing a regional exhibition program. The author offered readers a thoughtful assessment of the painting: “This is no “studio picture”, but a work of a disciple of the plein-air school to whom Nature is “un livre toujours ouvert devant mes yeux et où il y a toujours a approfoundir ses mystères-”a book every open before my eyes and in which the mysteries of Nature are ever to be fathomed.” Young Cortès did, of course, attend a good school: we all know what a talented artist his father is.” And the newspaper Le Matin commented that Cortès was “A little chap, only so high, who by rights should still be wearing out the seat of his trousers on his school bench, but who, nonetheless, with his light touch, has already entered canvasses for the Salon: a colleague of Jean-Paul Laurens, and rival to Henner,” The Salon coverage in Germany and England concurred, with the British illustrated weekly journal, The Sketch, publishing a short piece entitled “A Clever Boy Artist”. Le Figaro proclaimed: “His style and his color have greatly impressed the jury. The work clearly owes a debt to both Realist and Naturalist painters as well as his brother and father, but its acceptance by the Salon jury signaled that the youngest Cortès showed great promise. ![]() Sadly, André’s future was cut short in 1898, when he died at age thirty-one his four-year-old daughter Lucie died four months later in September.Įdouard Cortès followed his brother’s career path the next spring, making his Salon debut at age sixteen in April 1899 with the painting titled Le Labour, a canvas showing a farmer plowing his field behind a team of two horses. Like his father before him, André had made his Salon debut-in 1886-and was pursuing a successful career as a landscape painter. Both his brother and sister had gotten married in 1893 and begun their own families, so Edouard was the only child still at home. At that time, he too began to study painting in his father’s studio. Edouard, who seems to have been called Henri as a child, started school in 1888 and earned his Elementary School certificate in 1895 at age thirteen. It was not until 1882 that the youngest of the Cortès children made his appearance Edouard-Léon Henri was born at home at 3 rue des Etuves in Lagny on August 6th. Antonio’s career was thriving and his son André began studying painting with his father in approximately 1880. The family continued to live in Lagny where Léontine gave birth to a daughter, Jeanne-Marie in 1874. Antonio remarried twenty months later on Aughis new bride was the twenty-two-year-old Léontine-Augustine Frappart, a dressmaker. In the midst of the turmoil surrounding the Franco-Prussian War, Angélique died unexpectedly on Januat age thirty-three, leaving behind her five-year old son. Antonio continued to exhibit at the annual Salon and established a reputation as a painter of rural landscapes. The next five years seem to have been both prosperous and pleasant. The couple moved about fifteen miles east of Paris to Lagny-Thorigny on the Marne river where the Cortès family would settle their son, André George Charles Fernand Cortès y Aguilar, was born there on December 20, 1866. In the 1860s, the neighborhood was home to a lively arts community including the so-called Batignolles group that gathered around Edouard Manet.Īntonio’s stay in Paris lasted only until 1866 when he married Angélique Berger, a young widow, on September 13. ![]() He returned briefly to Seville when his father died in 1861, but by 1863, he was living in the Batignolles quarter of Paris at 4 rue des Dames with a studio a few blocks away at 90 rue de Clichy. ![]() At the age of thirty-two, Antonio set his sights on Paris where he began to exhibit his work at the Salon of 1859. Andrés’ son Antonio (1827-1908) likewise became a painter, initially at the royal court of Spain, and then in France. His grandfather, Andrés Cortès (1800-1861) was an “academician of the Holy Isabel of Sevilla (sic), dignified with several crosses of distinction, founding member of the Diputacion archaeological of Sevilla.” His paintings were shown at the annual Exhibition of Arts in Seville where he won a silver medal in 1858. Edouard Cortès was born into a family of painters.
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