Édouard François Zier

Édouard François Zier
Édouard Zier
— wood-engraving by Désiré Quesnel
Born
Édouard François Zier

1856 (1856)
Paris, France
Died19 January 1924(1924-01-19) (aged 67–68)
Thiais, France
NationalityFrench
Notable workIllustration, Three Musketeers

Édouard François Zier (1856 – 19 January 1924) was a French illustrator and painter.

Life and works

Édouard François Zier was born in Paris in 1856. He received his instructions in art from his father Victor Casimir Zier [fr] and later became a pupil of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme.[1]

His first painting, Mort de Caton d'Utique ("Death of Cato"), was exhibited at the Salon of 1874.[2][3] Charles VI et Odette appeared at the 1880 Salon;[4] these two paintings and also Esther (1883) were purchased by the French State.[2][5] His Julia (Julie, 1875) on a Roman theme was shown at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition and was awarded a gold medal.[1] [3]

Zier is known foremost however as an illustrator, for a wide variety of genres.[6]

He has illustrated for a number of periodicals, such as L'Illustration, Le Monde illustré,[2] Le Courrier français, and Le Journal de la jeunesse [fr].

Two of the adventures of the comic book series Bécassine (1917 and 1918) were illustrated by Zier while the original artist Joseph-Porphyre Pinchon served in World War I.[7][8]

A number of published books were illustrated by him, such as The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas,[6][9] Aphrodite by Pierre Louÿs,[2][10] Le Roman comique by Scarron,[2] La cantiniére du XIIIe siècle by Georges Le Faure,[10] Les Trésors de la fable by Auguste Louvet [fr], Voyages et aventures du Capitaine Marius Cougourdan by Eugène Mouton,[11] Seulette and Le Trésor de Madeleine by Pierre Maël [fr],[11] A l'abordage by Henry de Brisay [fr],[12] Papillonne by Zénaïde Fleuriot.[13]

He died in Thiais on 19 January 1924.[6]

References

Citations
  1. ^ a b Bélina, A. M. de (1883), "Édouard Zier", Nos peintres dessinés par eux mèmes, Paris: E. Bernard et cie, pp. 123–124
  2. ^ a b c d e Uzanne (1903)
  3. ^ a b Clement, Clara Erskine; Hutton, Laurence (1879), Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works, vol. 2, Trübner, p. 372
  4. ^ Michelez, G. (photographer). "Charles VI et Odette". albums de photographies dits "des Salons". Archives nationales, site de Pierrefitte-sur-Seine. p. folio 19. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Notes on Art and Archaeology". The Academy. 17: 464. 19 June 1880.
  6. ^ a b c "Édouard ZIER (1856-19 janvier 1924)". Revue des lectures. 12: 101. 1924.
  7. ^ Antoine Court, Regards populaires sur l'Anglo-Saxon : drôles de types, publications de l'université de Saint-Etienne, 2003, ISBN 2-86272-273-1, p. 196
  8. ^ Cirella-Urrutia, Anne (2015), Tholas-Disset, Clémentine; Ritzenhoff, Karen A. (eds.), "World War I in Bande Dessinée: La Semaine de Suzette and th Birth of a Breton Heroine at War!", Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 372, ISBN 9781137436436, endnote 4
  9. ^ Megías (2007), p. 57.
  10. ^ a b Megías (2007), p. 61.
  11. ^ a b Megías (2007), p. 63.
  12. ^ Megías (2007), p. 67.
  13. ^ Megías (2007), p. 68.
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