Armand Désiré Gautier (1825-1894) And Dominique Grenet Workshop, Impressionist Cache Pot, XIX

Slip planter from the Gien manufactory with impressionist decoration of flowers, stylized animal head handles, signed in the A Gauthier decor. Monogrammed below DG (workshop Dominique GRENET (1821-1885). Period 19th century Amand Gautier, born Armand Désiré Gautier on June 19, 1825 in Lille and died on January 29, 1894 in Paris, is a French painter and lithographer. Biography Amand Gautier is d First a student of François Souchon at the academic school of Lille in 1845 where he met Paul Gachet. Then he became a student of Léon Cogniet at the École des beaux-arts in Paris. He attended the Andler brasserie, rue Hautefeuille. where he became friends with Henri Murger, Champfleury, Gustave Courbet and most of the supporters of the French realist movement. During the 1850s, he exhibited paintings of nuns at the Salon which brought him a certain success and earned him the nickname. “painter of the sisters of charity” [ref. necessary]. Around 1860, he encouraged the young Claude Monet who designated him as his master on his student card3. impressionist painters He then spent a lot of time in Honfleur and Le Havre in the company of Eugène Boudin, Johan Barthold Jongkind and Carolus-Duran. Thanks to Paul Gachet, he went to Auvers-sur-Oise, where he met Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin, who in 1881 bought him a painting. He has a daughter, Marie Gautier, who was a painter and engraver.