Joodse riten en symbolen by S.Ph. de Vries

In 1890 Brandon was one of the first members of the ‘ Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts‘ (R87 iR1) and exhibited 17 paintings, 8 drawings and 7 watercolours (iR1). It was only in 1889 that Brandon exhibited at the successor of the Salon, the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français (=SdAF), he did so ‘exempté’ (iR1). There are also hardly works known from these years. Strange is that he didn’t exhibit from 1875-1888. He didn’t exhibit in 1872 and than again in 1873. Brandon exhibited ‘exempt’ in 1868 + 69 + 70 (iR1). Maybe Brandon received the 1867 because his serie of mural pictures of Sainte-Brigitte, first shown at the Salon of 1865, was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle (R231/iR19). Note: the preface in the posthumous catalogue suggests that both medals were given for retracing the life of Saint-Brigit (aR4) and La Gazette mentions the medals were for genre painting (R259). Some sources state that in 1867 Brandon received a medal for the ‘Portugese Synagoge at Amsterdam’ (aR1 iR69 iR3). In 1865 he received a medal (of History) at the Salon (iR1 iR69 R87 iR3). After his debut, Brandon exhibited yearly from 1863-70.

Édouard Brandon at the Salon and other exhibitions:īrandon debuted at the Salon in 1861 (iR69 iR65 R3 iR1 R87). Overall you can say, that Brandon hardly did paint in an impressionistic style and that he was more a Realist, with some impressionist influence, who also depicted neo-classical themes.Įdouard Brandon, 1IE-1874-32bis, Le maître d’école. Typical for Brandon was his depicting of contemporary Jewish, religious life, something Pissarro, also born a Jew, neglected. Still he never uses juxta-posed brushstrokes. His brushstroke is more loose, not rendering small details. The influence of light is mostly clair-obscure wise. But in many of his paintings Brandon uses a lot of browns, blacks and greys. In these works he also depicted every day life. In several Italian pictures (1856-63ca) his palet is more bright, he renders the influence of light and even sometimes uses blueish shadows, this is before Monet did so in 1869 (R22,CR133). This makes Brandon more a side-figure within the ‘impressionist’ art-movement.īrandon depicted many works on Saint-Brigit of Sweden (1303-73), which betrays a neo-classical influence. For the rest there doesn’t seem to be close contacts with other Impressionists. He was the teacher of Rouart, was befriended with Degas, de Nittis and probably had some contacts with Legros, Morisot and Félix Bracquemond. Impressionism, the partakers of the expositions: Édouard Brandon (1831-1897)ĭepicting Saint-Brigit, contemporary Italians, Jewish believers and moreīrandon only exhibited at the 1st ‘impressionist’ exposition. +/-Expos Impressionnistes et Symbolistes.-/-chronology meeting and painting together.

-/-Expositions: number of works exhibited.

Joodse riten en symbolen by S.Ph. de Vries