Paul-Émile Bécat
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Paul-Émile Bécat was a French painter, printmaker and engraver, and was awarded first prize in the Prix de Rome
in 1920. He was a student of Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng
and exhibitioned at the Salon de Paris in 1913. Returning from his travels to the Congo, Gabon, and the Sudan, he specialised from 1933 in the technique of drypoint
in his erotic works.
Today he is best known for his portraits of French writers, and for his erotic works.
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
in 1920. He was a student of Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng
François Flameng
François Flameng was a very successful French painter during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th. He was the son of a celebrated engraver and received a first-rate education in his craft. Flameng initially received renown for his history painting and portraiture,...
and exhibitioned at the Salon de Paris in 1913. Returning from his travels to the Congo, Gabon, and the Sudan, he specialised from 1933 in the technique of drypoint
Drypoint
Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. Traditionally the plate was copper, but now acetate, zinc, or plexiglas are also commonly used...
in his erotic works.
Today he is best known for his portraits of French writers, and for his erotic works.
Illustrative Work
- Pierre LouÿsPierre LouÿsPierre Louÿs was a French poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection."-Life:...
, Aphrodite: mœurs antiques - Pierre l'Arétin, Ragionamenti
- Brantôme, Vie des dames galantes
- Pierre Choderlos de LaclosPierre Choderlos de LaclosPierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses ....
, Les Liaisons dangereusesLes Liaisons dangereusesLes Liaisons dangereuses is a French epistolary novel by Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782.... - Paul VerlainePaul VerlainePaul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.-Early life:...
, Les amies - François-Mathieu Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert, La secte des anandrynes
External links
- Bibliography Illustrated books by Bécat
- Illustrations by Bécat Spanish
- "Seeing Africa" 2006 Tate Britain exhibition, supported by BP.