"Fanart Antonin French Painting XIXth Century Riverside Oil On Cardboard Signed"

FANART Antonin ( 1831 / 1903 )

Riverside.

Oil on board signed lower left.

36.5 x 55cm

Antonin FANART, born January 17, 1831 in Besançon (Doubs) and died in the same city on September 2, 1903, was a French painter. Born into a family of the Besançon petty bourgeoisie, Antonin Fanart left for Switzerland in 1849 to study painting. art and painting in Geneva. A landscape painter, he travels a lot in Switzerland, Savoie and Franche-Comté, regions from which he draws the subjects of several of his works. His first exhibition took place in 1854 in Geneva, before exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1857. Shortly after, he created a newspaper entitled Le Doubs, firmly opposing the Second Empire. He became sub-prefect of Montbéliard at the fall of the Empire (1871). Antonin Fanart returned to live in Besançon, a city where he was a municipal councillor, after his marriage in 1866. He founded the museum of the Granvelle palace as well as the "Comtoise Union of Decorative Arts" before dying of a heart disease on 2 September 1903, in the town where he was born. A street in Besançon bears his name, in the Montrapon-Fontaine-Écu district. Public collections: Dole Fine Arts Museum