Étienne Buffet

Étienne Buffet (Marie Étienne Pierre Paul Aimé Buffet) was born in Paris on 5 June 1866 and died in Paris on 3 December 1948. He is a French painter.

Biography

Lecture. Painting for which Buffet won an "honorable mention" at the 1938 Paris Salon

He was the son of Louis Aimé Buffet (1821-1900), who was Inspector General of Bridges and Highways and Marie Anne Philippine Fliche (1840-1921).[1] He was a nephew of the statesman Louis Joseph Buffet. Before attending the Académie Julian he was a pupil of Franck Bail (1858-1924) and later of William Laparra (1873-1920), Paul Albert Laurens (1870-1934), Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932) and Henri Royer (1869-1938). Étienne Buffet exhibited at the Salon des artistes français from 1903 until 1944.was appointed "sociétaire" in 1910 and received an "honourable mention" in 1938 for the painting "Lecture". He also wrote "Essai de théorie intégrale de la peinture, la doctrine" which approached painting from a mathematician's viewpoint. He also served in the Artillery as a lieutenant-colonel.

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