FANART Antonin French Painting XIXTh Century By The River Oil On Cardboard Signed

FANART Antonin (1831/1903)
Riverside.
Oil on board signed lower left.
36,5x55 cm
Certificate of authenticity.
Antonin FANART, born January 17, 1831 in Besançon (Doubs) and died in the same city on September 2, 1903, is a French painter.Born in a family of the petty bourgeoisie of Bisontine, Antonin Fanart left for Switzerland in 1849 to study the art and painting in Geneva. Landscape painter, he travels a lot in Switzerland, Savoy and Franche-Comté, regions from which he draws the subjects of several of his works. His first exhibition took place in 1854 in Geneva, before exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1857. Shortly after, he created a newspaper called Le Doubs, firmly opposing the Second Empire. He became the sub-prefect of Montbéliard at the fall of the Empire (1871). Antonin Fanart returned to live in Besançon, a city where he was a municipal councilor, after his marriage in 1866. He founded the Musée du Palais Granvelle as well as the “Union comtoise des arts décoratifs” before dying of a heart disease on the 2nd September 1903, in the city where he was born. A street in Besançon bears his name, in the Montrapon-Fontaine-Écu district. Public collections: Museum of Fine Arts of Dole Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology of Besançon.