Biography from Odon Wagner Gallery & Odon Wagner Contemporary:
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De Penne was a landscape and animal painter, born in Paris in
1831. He was a student of Leon Cogniet. In 1857, after
attending art school, he won the Rome Grand Second Prize with his
painting Jesus et la Samaritaine, a subject inspired by Victor Hugo.
De
Penne also deeply loved the forest of Fontainebleau, animals and
hunting. Under an apprenticeship to Charles-Emile Jacque, a
painter and aquafortist from the Barbizon School, he discovered the
world of popular farming books. From this evolved his rendering
of hounds and hunting scenes. It is evident that de Penne had a
“love of beasts” and a marvelous understanding of their
character. Painting from life and regularly attended hunting’s
with hounds, the artist carefully watched his models. What
resulted was a skillful rendering of the fluidity of a landscape with
each dog's specific characteristics, like its pedigree, physiognomy and
personality. De Penne’s paintings became extremely popular during
his lifetime, and remain so today.
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