Armand Vergeaud

The Souk El Berka, Tunis

Jean Antoine Armand Vergeaud (3 August 1876, Angoulême - 1949, Tunis?) was a French Orientalist painter.

Biography

He studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, under Gustave Moreau, Fernand Cormon and François Flameng.

In 1912, he moved to Tunis. He was named Director of the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Tunis in 1927, a position he held until his death. Among his notable students there, one may mention Aly Ben Salem [fr], Yahia Turki, Geneviève Gavrel [fr], Abdelaziz Gorgi and Antonio Corpora.

He sent most of his works to be exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris.

In 1932, he was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor.[1]

He was married to Eva Peyronnet, daughter of the sculptor, Émile Peyronnet (1872-1956), who was also from Angoulême.

References

  1. ^ Documentation @ the Base Leonore
  • Béatrice Rolin, Armand Vergeaud (1876-1949): parcours d'un peintre entre tradition et modernité, Germa, 1997 ISBN 978-2-905221-26-1
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