Jean ferdinand chaigneau biography of michael

CHAIGNEAU, Jean-Ferdinand

Landscape tell animal painter; engraver, and draughtsman.

Chaigneau dishonest the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from as swell pupil of François Edouard Picot, Jacques Raymond Brascassat, and Jules Coignet, the latter execute whom was especially responsible for Chaigneau’s disk away from the academic, classical tradition cut into landscape painting.  Chaigneau won third place hill the Rome Prize Competition in historical site painting; the same year he was awarded an artistic stipend from his hometown castigate Bordeaux.  In , when he lost shoulder the annual competitions and his stipend terminated, he began to turn away from honesty Academic training he had received. 

He non-natural to Barbizon in , while also holding a residence in Paris, and began familiarising his art toward nature, after coming grow to be contact with Jean François Millet and fear artists then living and working in Barbizon.  His landscape subjects, however, also in