Édouard François Zier

Édouard François Zier
Édouard Zier — wood-engraving by Désiré Quesnel
Born	Édouard François Zier 1856 (1856) Paris, France
Died	19 January 1924(1924-01-19) (aged 67–68) Thiais, France
Nationality	French
Notable work	Illustration, Three Musketeers

Édouard François Zier (1856 – 19 January 1924) was a French illustrator and painter.

Life and works

Édouard François Zier was born in Paris in 1856. He received his instructions in art from his father Victor Casimir Zier [fr] and later became a pupil of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme.^[1]

His first painting, Mort de Caton d'Utique ("Death of Cato"), was exhibited at the Salon of 1874.^[2][3] Charles VI et Odette appeared at the 1880 Salon;^[4] these two paintings and also Esther (1883) were purchased by the French State.^[2][5] His Julia (Julie, 1875) on a Roman theme was shown at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition and was awarded a gold medal.^{[1] [3]}

Zier is known foremost however as an illustrator, for a wide variety of genres.^[6]

He has illustrated for a number of periodicals, such as L'Illustration, Le Monde illustré,^[2] Le Courrier français, and Le Journal de la jeunesse [fr].

Two of the adventures of the comic book series Bécassine (1917 and 1918) were illustrated by Zier while the original artist Joseph-Porphyre Pinchon served in World War I.^[7][8]

A number of published books were illustrated by him, such as The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas,^[6][9] Aphrodite by Pierre Louÿs,^[2][10] Le Roman comique by Scarron,^[2] La cantiniére du XIIIe siècle by Georges Le Faure,^[10] Les Trésors de la fable by Auguste Louvet [fr], Voyages et aventures du Capitaine Marius Cougourdan by Eugène Mouton,^[11] Seulette and Le Trésor de Madeleine by Pierre Maël [fr],^[11] A l'abordage by Henry de Brisay [fr],^[12] Papillonne by Zénaïde Fleuriot.^[13]

He died in Thiais on 19 January 1924.^[6]

Gallery

• 
  Acis et Galatée, Acis and Galatea hide from Polyphemus
  1877
• 
  Aphrodite: mœurs antiques
  1900
• 
  Portrait idéal
  1903
• 
  Ophelia
  1904
• 
  Les Baigneuses à Biarritz

References

Citations

1. Bélina, A. M. de (1883), "Édouard Zier", Nos peintres dessinés par eux mèmes, Paris: E. Bernard et cie, pp. 123–124
2. Uzanne (1903)
3. Clement, Clara Erskine; Hutton, Laurence (1879), Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works, vol. 2, Trübner, p. 372
4. Michelez, G. (photographer). "Charles VI et Odette". albums de photographies dits "des Salons". Archives nationales, site de Pierrefitte-sur-Seine. p. folio 19. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
5. "Notes on Art and Archaeology". The Academy. 17: 464. 19 June 1880.
6. "Édouard ZIER (1856-19 janvier 1924)". Revue des lectures. 12: 101. 1924.
7. Antoine Court, Regards populaires sur l'Anglo-Saxon : drôles de types, publications de l'université de Saint-Etienne, 2003, ISBN 2-86272-273-1, p. 196
8. Cirella-Urrutia, Anne (2015), Tholas-Disset, Clémentine; Ritzenhoff, Karen A. (eds.), "World War I in Bande Dessinée: La Semaine de Suzette and th Birth of a Breton Heroine at War!", Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 372, ISBN 9781137436436, endnote 4
9. Megías (2007), p. 57.
10. Megías (2007), p. 61.
11. Megías (2007), p. 63.
12. Megías (2007), p. 67.
13. Megías (2007), p. 68.

Bibliography

• Uzanne, Joseph (1903), "Édouard Zier", Figures contemporaines tirées de l'Album Mariani, vol. 8, Paris: Henry Floury available at Gallica
• Megías, José Manuel Lucía (2007), El "Quijote" inédito de Édouard Zier: una mirada recuperada, SIAL Ediciones, ISBN 9788496464643 (in Spanish)

External links

• Lambiek Comiclopedia article