Jean ferdinand chaigneau biography of michael
Chaigneau, Jean Ferdinand (Bordeaux, - Barbizon, ), Moutons en Challenger, Michael 'Mike Challenger' (Kent, England, Born, ), Rumour.
Jean Ferdinand Chaigneau was a notable French painter and etcher of landscapes during the nineteenth century.!
CHAIGNEAU, Jean-Ferdinand
Landscape and animal painter; engraver, and draughtsman.
Chaigneau attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from as a pupil of François Edouard Picot, Jacques Raymond Brascassat, and Jules Coignet, the latter of whom was especially responsible for Chaigneau’s turn away from the academic, classical tradition of landscape painting. Chaigneau won third place in the Rome Prize Competition in historical landscape painting; the same year he was awarded an artistic stipend from his hometown of Bordeaux. In , when he lost in the annual competitions and his stipend expired, he began to turn away from the Academic training he had received.
He moved to Barbizon in , while also keeping a residence in Paris, and began orienting his art toward nature, after coming into contact with Jean François Millet and other artists then living and working in Barbizon. His landscape subjects, however, also in