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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
"The son and pupil of the illustrator and décorateur Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri and nephew of the painter Eugène Isabey, Eugène Cicéri began his career as a designer of mural paintings, as well as theatre and stage sets. He was mainly active as a landscape painter, however, and in this field was influenced by the work of his uncle and teacher Eugène Isabey. (Isabey and Cicéri shared a Parisian studio for some time, and both were much influenced by fellow artists working nearby, including Narcisse Diaz, Jules Dupré, Théodore Rousseau and Jean-François Millet.) Cicéri exhibited paintings, gouaches and watercolour views – usually of the forest of Fontainebleau and the banks of the Seine and Marne rivers – at the Salons from 1851 onwards, and also showed lithographs in the 1870s and 1880s. . . . Along with Théodore Géricault and Richard Parkes Bonington, Cicéri provided illustrations for several volumes of Baron Taylor's monumental series of Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France, published between 1820 and 1875. . . . In 1882, Cicéri published his Cours d'aquarelle, a practical guide for amateur watercolourists."
– excerpted from a brief biography issued by Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Eugène Cicéri Design for Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |