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"biography": "M\u00e9nard grew up in a profoundly artistic and intellectual milieu. His father, Ren\u00e9-Joseph M\u00e9nard (1827-1887), painted landscapes but was more known as a writer and art critic who headed the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Through his father, M\u00e9nard met the painters of the Barbizon school. His uncle-chemist, pagan philosopher, and writer Louis M\u00e9nard (1822-1901)-was characterized by Th\u00e9ophile Gautier as an Athenian born two thousand years too late. Author of R\u00eaveries d'un pa\u00efen mystique (1876), Louis M\u00e9nard undoubtedly introduced his nephew to classical antiquity. After a two-year apprenticeship with the decorator Pierre-Victor Galland (1822-1892) that began in 1877, M\u00e9nard studied with Paul Baudry (1828-1886) and Bouguereau (q.v.). He then attended the Acad\u00e9mie Julian in 1880 and began adopting a symbolist style. M\u00e9nard first exhibited at the Salon of 1883 and initially chose his subjects from the Bible and classical mythology. Soon, however, he chose to represent more generic visions of Arcadia. He first experienced the classical heritage on a trip to Sicily in 1898, the first of many such journeys to Greece, Italy, Algeria, and the Middle East. In 1906 he received a commission to decorate the library of the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes of the Sorbonne in Paris, followed by a cycle of large canvases for the law school of the University of Paris (1908-13, Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, Paris). From then on he exhibited regularly in France and abroad, such as in the group exhibition of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Nouvelle in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1911. He moved from Paris to Varengeville near Dieppe. M\u00e9nard became loosely associated with a diverse group of artists called La Bande Noire, headed by Charles Cottet (1863-1925) and Lucien Simon (1861-1945). As opposed to the brighter palette of the impressionists, the group's name referred to the application of a more subdued color scheme and an interest in more melancholic subjects. But rather than the harsh lives of the peasants and fishermen that inspired Cottet, M\u00e9nard depicted the Breton landscape. He also belonged to the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Pastellistes Fran\u00e7ais; the pastel medium suited his taste for rendering twilight landscapes, especially later on in his career when he often stayed in Provence. His contemporaries placed M\u00e9nard in the French classical tradition, comparing him to such artists as Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), and eventually Puvis de Chavannes (q.v.).",
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