$375
Le Cauchemar
CORMON, Fernand
Etching printed on laid paper (partial watermark of a cross in a lobed circle). Reference: we have yet to find any scholarly reference of the etch...
View full detailsFernand CORMON
Born in Paris in 1845, Fernand Cormon trained with Jean-François Portaels, Eugène Fromentin, and Alexandre Cabanel. He made his Paris Salon debut in 1868 and gained widespread recognition at the Salon of 1875, when The Death of Ravana, King of Lanka won the Prix du Salon.
Cormon’s drawings and etchings reveal an imagination drawn to anxiety, fantasy, violence, and profound unease. In his works on paper, he examined many of the same themes he wrestled within his ambitious paintings: biblical and mythological narratives, prehistoric life, exile, and the darker reaches of human experience.
In the 1880s, Cormon established a celebrated teaching studio in Paris and later became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. His students included Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, and other artists who would move decisively beyond the academic tradition in which they had trained.
Cormon died in Paris in 1924, after a distinguished career positioned between academic tradition and emerging modernism.