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French painter

Norbert Goeneutte (23 July 1854 – 9 October 1894) was a French painter, etcher and illustrator; notably for the novel La Terre by Émile Zola.

Biography

He was born in Paris into a family that had moved there from Saint-Omer 1850.^[1] He attended classes at the Lycée Condorcet. Following a long interruption by the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, when he lived away from Paris, he graduated in 1871 and his father found him a place in an attorney's office.^[2]

His father died shortly thereafter and Norbert persuaded his mother that he was not suited for that sort of work.

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Born in Paris, he studied under Isidore Pils () at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the early s.

Norbert Goeneutte (23 July , Paris - 9 October , Auvers-sur-Oise) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator; notably for the novel La Terre by.

Goeneutte was not only a painter, however; he was also an accomplished printmaker and showed his masterful etchings in contemporary magazines and as book.

Born in Paris, Goeneutte studied under Isidore Pils at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the early 's.

She agreed, so he entered the École des Beaux-arts and began studies with Isidore Pils. When Pils died in 1875, he was replaced by Henri Lehmann, who was not liked by his students. They wrote to Édouard Manet, asking him to take Lehmann's place, but he declined.

Some students remained, but Goeneutte left to set up his own studio.^[2]

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