Many of the subjects and scenes he portrayed were taken from images he collected of Paris during the 1890's, and he would often work on paintings for days or months before he finally felt they were complete.
He began to research the Belle Époque period in Paris - reading and studying all the material on the period he could find.
Contemporary life in Paris had changed, and he longed for the bygone days. His second daughter, Evelyn, was born in 1947, and by 1948, he had given control of the family business to his younger brother and returned to Paris to paint. It was also around this time that Antoine's father passed away, and he was compelled to return to his hometown and run the family business - giving him little time to paint. His daughter Nicole was born in 1944 - she too would follow in the family tradition and after the birth of her two daughters, she became an artist working under the name A. On August 10th 1988, Antoine Blanchard died aged 77. Authentication of an original Blanchard/Masson painting is necessary and the authentic signature carries a secret known by art experts. His art is popular in international art auctions and there are many copies. Many of the French Quarter art galleries of New Orleans handle Antoine Blanchard paintings and prints since this American City has a strong French history. The most recurrent topics were views of the capital city in cloudy or rainy days, showing streets busy with pedestrians in a rush to go home, and bright storefronts reflecting on wet streets. The artist began painting his Paris street scenes in the late 1950s, and like Cortès, often painted the same Paris landmark many times, in different weather conditions or various seasons.
Like Édouard Cortès (1882–1969) and Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941), Antoine Blanchard essentially painted Paris and the Parisians in bygone days, often from vintage postcards. He then moved to Paris in 1932 where he joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Education and career:īlanchard received his initial artistic training at the Beaux-Arts in Rennes, Brittany.
He was born in a small village near the banks of the Loire. Antoine Blanchard is the pseudonym under which the French painter Marcel Masson (15 November 1910 – 10 August 1988) painted his immensely popular Parisian street scenes.
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