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Silvered bronze medal, Belgium.
Medal struck around 1930.
Some minimal traces of handling.
Beautiful old patina.
Engraver : Fisch .
Dimension : 79mm.
Weight : 187 g.
Metal : silvered bronze.
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : Fisch.
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Henri Evenepoel was born to parents from Brussels1, from a family which found its origins, from the 14th century, in villages to the west of Brussels, in Wambeek, Borchtlombeek and Ternat2.
Henri's father, Charles Edmond Armand Evenepoel, born3 in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean on Mars 23, 1846, was a commercial employee, piano teacher, then a senior Belgian civil servant4 — he was head of division at the Ministry of the Interior in 1893 — and died in Uccle on Mars 1, 1931. Edmond Evenepoel was very cultured, and a music lover, musical critic in the newspaper La Flandre liberale and the Guide Musical (1889-1914). Henri will remain very close to his father. Edmond Evenepoel was the son of Jacques-Charles Evenepoel5, accountant, born in Brussels on June 6, 1824, and died in Schaerbeek on May 7, 1892 in his house at no. 78 rue Dupont, and of Elisabeth Caroline Célestine van Swyngenhoven6.
Henri's mother, Anne Émilie Peppe, born in Saint-Gilles on May 19, 1846, and died in Schaerbeek in her house at no. 30 rue Royale-Sainte-Marie, on October 19, 1874, when Henri was only two years old, was the daughter of Henri Marie Jacques Peppe, accountant, then employee at the Bank of Belgium, then merchant, and of Sophie Jeanne Mathilde Christine van Gelder who were married7 in Brussels in 1842. Note that the latter was the widow of Félix Devis, who died in 1840, and that from this first marriage she had a daughter Sophie Devis, born August 18, 1838 in Antwerp, who married the statuary Charles in Schaerbeek on July 22, 1857. -Auguste Fraikin. It is this Aunt Sophie, a rich, cultured and worldly lady, who will help Henri Evenepoel a lot even in his dark hours8.
Henri had an older brother, Maurice Charles Henri Edmond Evenepoel, born in Schaerbeek on January 20, 1870, who was a factory director in Tournai, who married9 in 1893 in Brussels10 Euphémie - known as Kikine - Marie Eugénie Annez. This wedding was attended by Parisian architect Henri Parent, aged 74 and described as an uncle11. Maurice died in 1933 and had no descendants8.
Youth and training
Henri Evenepoel was born on October 2, 1872 in Nice, in the Saint-Barthélémy district, in a random home, rented by his parents for a long-term stay on the Côte d'Azur, in order to allow his mother, exhausted by her first pregnancy two years previously, to regain strength and restore her health8.
Young Henri took drawing classes at the Academy of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode as well as classes in the studio of painter Ernest Blanc-Garin and decorator Adolphe Crespin at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels . In Brussels, he lives at no. 78 rue Dupont, in the town of Schaerbeek, where his grandfather had his home.
In 1892, he moved to Paris. He stayed with his cousin, Louise De Mey, who would be one of his favorite models12,15, notably for Portrait of Madame D. (in mourning) and Le Chapeau blanc. She had two children from her husband: Henriette, born in 1890 in Paris, immortalized in the painting Henriette au grand bonnet, and Sophie Suzanne De Mey, born in 1891 in Paris. Louise was related to the painter Charles Hermans16.
Henri Evenepoel trained in the workshop of Gustave Moreau at the École des beaux-arts de Paris17, and there met Henri Matisse, Simon Bussy, Eugène Martel, Albert Huyot, Georges Rouault and Charles Milcendeau. He became friends with this painter from Vendée, and introduced him to the Spanish artist Francisco Iturrino who is represented in The Spaniard in Paris (Ghent museum)18.
In 1894, his cousin Louise gave birth to their son Charles, who appeared in several of his child portraits and notably in the painting Charles in striped jersey. Louise being still married, the child will always bear the name De Mey19 and because of the premature death of his father, he could never bear the name Evenepoel.
In 1895, he became friends with the painter Henri Huklenbrok.
In 1897, Henri Evenepoel fell ill and stayed in Algeria for a few months to receive treatment. He became friends with the French painter Raoul du Gardier who, like him, frequented the studio of Gustave Moreau. The color of his paintings is influenced by his stay in Algeria. The most emblematic painting of this Algerian stay is the Orange Market in Blida20.
Career
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Back in Paris, Evenepoel created large compositions like Sunday Walk in the Bois de Boulogne. His career takes off, he is successful and his work is appreciated.
In 1899, he received an invitation from Octave Maus to participate in the Salon de La Libre Esthétique in 1900, and was invited by the organizers of the Belgian section of the Universal Exhibition in Paris. Henri Evenepoel then plans to return to Belgium in order to marry his cousin Louise, whose divorce will soon be finalized, and to recognize his son Charles.
Last years
A few days before his return to Brussels, on December 27, 1899, he died prematurely in Paris, carried away by typhoid fever. Louise died in Ixelles on November 25, 1941. She had given several paintings by Henri to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
He is buried in the Brussels Cemetery in Evere.
Works
Antwerp Exhibition
1892: The Artist in front of a landscape, charcoal, ENSBA.
1894: Louise in mourning, at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
1895: The Baby or The Broken Toy, at the Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
1896? : Antwerp Exhibition, poster reproduced in The Masters of the Poster (1895-1900).
1897
At the Moulin Rouge, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
The Lady in the Green Hat, at the Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
The Cook.
In the square, lithograph, in L'Estampe moderne.
The Foire aux Invalides, at the Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
1898
Little Charles in striped jersey21.
40th exhibition of the Salon des Cent (lithographed poster).
1899:
Sunday walk in the Bois de Boulogne (long called Sunday Walk in Saint-Cloud), at the Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
The Spaniard in Paris (portrait of the painter Francisco Iturrino), Ghent Museum of Fine Arts
The Cup of Tea
Portrait of Madame Crespin
Miss Matisse
Henriette with the big hat, royal museums of Brussels, Fin de siècle museum
Portrait of Madame D. (in mourning)
Portrait of the painter Paul Baignères22 (or Portrait of a Man in Red), Fin de Siècle museum, 1894
Tributes
The municipality of Schaerbeek (Brussels) pays tribute to him by giving his name to one of its arteries: rue Henri Evenepoel. The town of Fooz-Wépion also dedicates one of its arteries of the same name to him.
Belgium issues two commemorative stamps representing works by Henri Evenepoel: Henriette with the big hat and Little Charles with the striped jersey.
Gallery
Works by Henri Evenepoel
The Baby (The Broken Toy) (1893), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
The Baby (The Broken Toy) (1893), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
Foire aux Invalides (1897), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
Foire aux Invalides (1897), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
The Blidah Orange Market (1898), Brussels, Fin de Siècle museum.
The Blidah Orange Market (1898), Brussels, Fin de Siècle museum.
The Spaniard in Paris (1899), Ghent Museum of Fine Arts.
The Spaniard in Paris (1899), Ghent Museum of Fine Arts.
Sunday walk in the Bois de Boulogne (1899), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
Sunday walk in the Bois de Boulogne (1899), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
Notes and references
Marcel Bergé, Evenepoel, in L'Intermédiaire des génalogistes, n° 52, July 1954, pp. 215 and 216.
Dr Jan Lindemans, Evenepoel Genealogy, in Oude Brabantse Geslachten, n° 34, 16 p., Extract from Eigen Schoon en De Brabander, 1954.
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, birth certificate no. 106 of Mars 24, 1846. Jacques Charles Evenepoel, employee, aged 21, residing at No. 18 rue du Level, born in Brussels, declared the birth of his son, Charles Edmond Armand, born to his wife Charlotte Van Swijgenhoven, housewife, aged
Henri's father, Charles Edmond Armand Evenepoel, born3 in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean on Mars 23, 1846, was a commercial employee, piano teacher, then a senior Belgian civil servant4 — he was head of division at the Ministry of the Interior in 1893 — and died in Uccle on Mars 1, 1931. Edmond Evenepoel was very cultured, and a music lover, musical critic in the newspaper La Flandre liberale and the Guide Musical (1889-1914). Henri will remain very close to his father. Edmond Evenepoel was the son of Jacques-Charles Evenepoel5, accountant, born in Brussels on June 6, 1824, and died in Schaerbeek on May 7, 1892 in his house at no. 78 rue Dupont, and of Elisabeth Caroline Célestine van Swyngenhoven6.
Henri's mother, Anne Émilie Peppe, born in Saint-Gilles on May 19, 1846, and died in Schaerbeek in her house at no. 30 rue Royale-Sainte-Marie, on October 19, 1874, when Henri was only two years old, was the daughter of Henri Marie Jacques Peppe, accountant, then employee at the Bank of Belgium, then merchant, and of Sophie Jeanne Mathilde Christine van Gelder who were married7 in Brussels in 1842. Note that the latter was the widow of Félix Devis, who died in 1840, and that from this first marriage she had a daughter Sophie Devis, born August 18, 1838 in Antwerp, who married the statuary Charles in Schaerbeek on July 22, 1857. -Auguste Fraikin. It is this Aunt Sophie, a rich, cultured and worldly lady, who will help Henri Evenepoel a lot even in his dark hours8.
Henri had an older brother, Maurice Charles Henri Edmond Evenepoel, born in Schaerbeek on January 20, 1870, who was a factory director in Tournai, who married9 in 1893 in Brussels10 Euphémie - known as Kikine - Marie Eugénie Annez. This wedding was attended by Parisian architect Henri Parent, aged 74 and described as an uncle11. Maurice died in 1933 and had no descendants8.
Youth and training
Henri Evenepoel was born on October 2, 1872 in Nice, in the Saint-Barthélémy district, in a random home, rented by his parents for a long-term stay on the Côte d'Azur, in order to allow his mother, exhausted by her first pregnancy two years previously, to regain strength and restore her health8.
Young Henri took drawing classes at the Academy of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode as well as classes in the studio of painter Ernest Blanc-Garin and decorator Adolphe Crespin at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels . In Brussels, he lives at no. 78 rue Dupont, in the town of Schaerbeek, where his grandfather had his home.
In 1892, he moved to Paris. He stayed with his cousin, Louise De Mey, who would be one of his favorite models12,15, notably for Portrait of Madame D. (in mourning) and Le Chapeau blanc. She had two children from her husband: Henriette, born in 1890 in Paris, immortalized in the painting Henriette au grand bonnet, and Sophie Suzanne De Mey, born in 1891 in Paris. Louise was related to the painter Charles Hermans16.
Henri Evenepoel trained in the workshop of Gustave Moreau at the École des beaux-arts de Paris17, and there met Henri Matisse, Simon Bussy, Eugène Martel, Albert Huyot, Georges Rouault and Charles Milcendeau. He became friends with this painter from Vendée, and introduced him to the Spanish artist Francisco Iturrino who is represented in The Spaniard in Paris (Ghent museum)18.
In 1894, his cousin Louise gave birth to their son Charles, who appeared in several of his child portraits and notably in the painting Charles in striped jersey. Louise being still married, the child will always bear the name De Mey19 and because of the premature death of his father, he could never bear the name Evenepoel.
In 1895, he became friends with the painter Henri Huklenbrok.
In 1897, Henri Evenepoel fell ill and stayed in Algeria for a few months to receive treatment. He became friends with the French painter Raoul du Gardier who, like him, frequented the studio of Gustave Moreau. The color of his paintings is influenced by his stay in Algeria. The most emblematic painting of this Algerian stay is the Orange Market in Blida20.
Career
This section is empty, insufficiently detailed or incomplete. Your help is welcome ! How to do ?
Back in Paris, Evenepoel created large compositions like Sunday Walk in the Bois de Boulogne. His career takes off, he is successful and his work is appreciated.
In 1899, he received an invitation from Octave Maus to participate in the Salon de La Libre Esthétique in 1900, and was invited by the organizers of the Belgian section of the Universal Exhibition in Paris. Henri Evenepoel then plans to return to Belgium in order to marry his cousin Louise, whose divorce will soon be finalized, and to recognize his son Charles.
Last years
A few days before his return to Brussels, on December 27, 1899, he died prematurely in Paris, carried away by typhoid fever. Louise died in Ixelles on November 25, 1941. She had given several paintings by Henri to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
He is buried in the Brussels Cemetery in Evere.
Works
Antwerp Exhibition
1892: The Artist in front of a landscape, charcoal, ENSBA.
1894: Louise in mourning, at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
1895: The Baby or The Broken Toy, at the Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
1896? : Antwerp Exhibition, poster reproduced in The Masters of the Poster (1895-1900).
1897
At the Moulin Rouge, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
The Lady in the Green Hat, at the Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
The Cook.
In the square, lithograph, in L'Estampe moderne.
The Foire aux Invalides, at the Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
1898
Little Charles in striped jersey21.
40th exhibition of the Salon des Cent (lithographed poster).
1899:
Sunday walk in the Bois de Boulogne (long called Sunday Walk in Saint-Cloud), at the Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
The Spaniard in Paris (portrait of the painter Francisco Iturrino), Ghent Museum of Fine Arts
The Cup of Tea
Portrait of Madame Crespin
Miss Matisse
Henriette with the big hat, royal museums of Brussels, Fin de siècle museum
Portrait of Madame D. (in mourning)
Portrait of the painter Paul Baignères22 (or Portrait of a Man in Red), Fin de Siècle museum, 1894
Tributes
The municipality of Schaerbeek (Brussels) pays tribute to him by giving his name to one of its arteries: rue Henri Evenepoel. The town of Fooz-Wépion also dedicates one of its arteries of the same name to him.
Belgium issues two commemorative stamps representing works by Henri Evenepoel: Henriette with the big hat and Little Charles with the striped jersey.
Gallery
Works by Henri Evenepoel
The Baby (The Broken Toy) (1893), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
The Baby (The Broken Toy) (1893), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
Foire aux Invalides (1897), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
Foire aux Invalides (1897), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
The Blidah Orange Market (1898), Brussels, Fin de Siècle museum.
The Blidah Orange Market (1898), Brussels, Fin de Siècle museum.
The Spaniard in Paris (1899), Ghent Museum of Fine Arts.
The Spaniard in Paris (1899), Ghent Museum of Fine Arts.
Sunday walk in the Bois de Boulogne (1899), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
Sunday walk in the Bois de Boulogne (1899), Liège Museum of Fine Arts.
Notes and references
Marcel Bergé, Evenepoel, in L'Intermédiaire des génalogistes, n° 52, July 1954, pp. 215 and 216.
Dr Jan Lindemans, Evenepoel Genealogy, in Oude Brabantse Geslachten, n° 34, 16 p., Extract from Eigen Schoon en De Brabander, 1954.
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, birth certificate no. 106 of Mars 24, 1846. Jacques Charles Evenepoel, employee, aged 21, residing at No. 18 rue du Level, born in Brussels, declared the birth of his son, Charles Edmond Armand, born to his wife Charlotte Van Swijgenhoven, housewife, aged