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Baud-Bovy, Auguste
(b Geneva, 13 Feb 1848; d Davos, 3 June 1899). Swiss painter. He studied drawing and painting under Barthélemy Menn from 1863 to 1868. In 1868 he married the younger daughter of the painter Jules Bovy (1810–44), adding her surname to his own, and the following year he was appointed professor for the municipal art schools, a post he held for ten years. At this stage he produced still-lifes and portraits (e.g. Aunt Louise, 1875; Geneva, Mus. A. & Hist.). An attraction to social realist themes was superseded by one for Alpine landscape, encountered in the valley of Tourtemagne in 1872. He was one of a circle of Swiss painters under the sway of Courbet during that artist’s exile from Paris from 1873 to 1878 and was taught by him. When Baud-Bovy exhibited in Paris at the Salons of the Champs-Elysées and Champs-de-Mars from 1875, he also became a friend of the critic Jules-Antoine Castagnary. He travelled in Spain from 1880 to 1881, admiring the works of Goya.
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