| Edmond Jean de Pury | |
| Birth Date: | 6 March 1845 |
| Birth Place: | Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| Death Date: | 7 November 1911 |
| Death Place: | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Occupation: | painter, engraver |
| Education: | École des Beaux-Arts |
| Spouse: | Marie Amélie Mathilde Wagniere |
| Children: | 2 |
Baron Edmond Jean de Pury (6 March 1845 – 7 November 1911) was a Swiss painter and engraver.
De Pury was born on 6 March 1845 in Neuchâtel.[1] [2] He was a member of a Prussian noble family and was a nephew of James-Ferdinand de Pury.
He trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, studying painting and engraving.[2] While at school in Paris, he was a student of Charles Gleyre[2] [3]
In a composite group portrait of students in Gleyre's atelier,[4] de Pury was painted in the nude by fellow student Alfred Lenglet. Another student, Paul Milliet, wrote of the image in his memoirs: "The fragment…shows the athletic torso of…de Pury. Alfred Lenglet's painting is solid and luminous, but to render completely the elegant vigor of the model would have required the chisel of a Greek sculptor."[5]
Although he painted landscapes, de Pury's main focus was portraiture.[2] [6] [7] He was best known for his Italalian figure paintings, mainly of working-class people of Rome, Capri, and Venice.[2] The highest price for one of his paintings was US$40,599 in 2007 for In the Lagoons of Venice.[1] [8] His paintings were exhibited in Paris.[2] His portrait of Richard Wagner was completed two years before the composer's death.[2] His work is displayed in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Bern, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Museum des Beaux-Arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève, and the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts.[9] [2]
In 1889 de Pury was awarded a medal at the Exposition Universelle.[2]
He was married to Marie Amélie Mathilde Wagniere, who was also an artist.[2]
De Pury died on 7 November 1911 in Lausanne.[1] [2] [10]