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- In 1914 Cortès married Fernande Joyeuse, with whom he had a daughter, Jacqueline Simone, in 1916. The depiction of a woman with a child is repeated throughout his work, a possible reference to Joyeuse and Jacqueline.
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In 1914 Cortès married Fernande Joyeuse, with whom he had a daughter, Jacqueline Simone, in 1916. The depiction of a woman with a child is repeated throughout his work, a possible reference to Joyeuse and Jacqueline.
Except for a few years in Paris and Normandy, Cortès spent most of his life living at 22 rue Macheret and working in his studio. Édouard married Fernande Joyeuse in 1914 and had a child - Jacqueline Simone in 1916. The First World War would interrupt the life of this young family.
Born in France in 1882 to successful Spanish painter Antonio Cortes and his wife, artist Edouard Cortes became renowned for his historical pieces depicting French life in pre-1930s Paris. Edouard Cortes paintings spanned multiple mediums as he was skilled in gouache, watercolor, and oil.
In 1914 Cortès married Fernande Joyeuse, with whom he had a daughter in 1916. Although Cortès was a pacifist, when war came close to his native village he was compelled to enlist in a French Infantry Regiment at the age of 32. As a contact agent Cortès was wounded by a bayonet, evacuated to a military hospital, and awarded the Croix de Guerre.
- French
- April 26, 1882
- Lagny-sur-Marne, France
- November 26, 1969
Antonio was born in Seville in 1827 and established himself as a painter of rural genre. In 1855 he traveled to Paris for the Exposition Universelle and was drawn to the town of Lagny-sur-Marne – where he settled. He continued to paint scenes reminiscent of Troyon, Jacque and Van Marcke. Antonio had three children - Édouard, Henri and Jeanne ...
1882 – 1969. In his paintings of Paris, Edouard Cortes captured a magic that has universal fascination. His paintings sing of the beauties, the intriguing out-of-the-way corners, nostalgic life of this queen of cities so glowingly, so arrestingly and so magnetically Cortes might well be called “The Poet of Paris in Oil.”
Mar 10, 2020 · NEW YORK – Few artists have been able to capture the romance, energy and charm of old Paris as nimbly as Edouard Léon Cortès (1882-1968), the French post-impressionist painter who dedicated most of his life to seizing the magic of Paris during its transition from the romantic “belle epoque” to the modern, 20th century capital city it is today.
