Eugène Murer

Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier (14 May 1841 – 22 April 1906), known as Eugène Murer, was a pastry chef, author, self-taught painter and collector of impressionist paintings.[1][2] [3]

Eugène Murer
Born
Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier
DiedApril 22, 1906(1906-04-22) (aged 64)
Auvers-sur-Oise
MovementImpressionism

He was born in Poitiers on 14 May 1846.[4] He was a childhood friend of Armand Guillaumin, who introduced him to the impressionists.[5] He was an apprentice pastry chef at Grû at 8 Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre and 125 Faubourg Poissonnière.[6][7]

He ran a patisserie at 95 Boulevard Voltaire, where he invited, for "Tuesday-dinner", young artists, collectors, and established artists. Renoir, Sisley, Monet, Cézanne, Gachet, Vincent and Theo Van Gogh, Père Tanguy, art dealers Louis Legrand and Alphonse Portier, Goeneutte, Guillaumin, Vignon, Pierre Franc-Lamy, and Pissarro were among his guests.[8] British art historian Colin B. Bailey notes that Murer's diary from this time contains a sad entry about the suicide of Vincent van Gogh that demands further study.[4]

He died in Auvers-sur-Oise, where he was a neighbour of Gachet,[1] on 22 April 1906.[9] He lived on 39 rue Victor Massé, Paris, above a carpenter and art supply dealer called Michel, where he bought his paints.[8] The Musée d'Orsay owns one of his paintings, L'Oise at Isle-Adam, from 1903.[10]

Bibliography

He published under the pseudonym Gêne-Mûr.

  • Comment Se Vengent Les Batards; 1865 [11][12]
  • Les Fils du siècle; 1877
  • Pauline Lavinia; 1887[13]
  • La mère Nom de Dieu! 1888[14]

A portrait by Camille Pissarro from 1878 is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Massachusetts.

  • Portrait of Eugène Murer, Camille Pissarro, 1878
    Portrait of Eugène Murer, Camille Pissarro, 1878
  • Camille Pissarro, Eugène Murer at his pastry oven, 1877.
    Camille Pissarro, Eugène Murer at his pastry oven, 1877.
  • Eugène Murer, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1877
    Eugène Murer, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1877[1]

References
  1. "Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, 1841–1906)". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  2. Montaigne, Jean-Marc (2010). Eugène Murer: un ami oublié des impressionnistes : Paris, Auvers-sur-Oise, Rouen (in French). ASI Éd. ISBN 9782912461131.
  3. Gachet, Paul (1956). Le Docteur Gachet et Murer: deux amis des impressionnistes (in French). Éditions de Musées nationaux.
  4. Bailey, Colin B. (2009). "Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, 1841–1906)". In Stein, Susan Alyson; Miller, Asher Ethan (eds.). The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 108-113. ISBN 9781588393418.
  5. AMA. "Armand Guillaumin,_CHRONOLOGIE - La Lettre de l'AMA". La Lettre de l'AMA (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  6. Vassor, Bernard. "Sur les pas des écrivains : Le café Wolff et le pâtissier Grû". www.terresdecrivains.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  7. VALLEE, Jean-Pierre. "Le docteur Gachet fou de peinture". www.van-gogh.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  8. "La Maison des Associations du 9ème - Action Barbès". actionbarbes.blogspirit.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  9. "Eugène Murer – Moulins (1846) – Auvers-sur-Oise (1906) - Auvers-sur-Oise et Vincent van Gogh". Auvers-sur-Oise et Vincent van Gogh (in French). 2010-03-02. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  10. "Musée d'Orsay: Collections catalogue - search results". www.musee-orsay.fr. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  11. texte, Murer, Eugène (1841-1906). Auteur du (1865). "Comment se vengent les bâtards, par Eugène Murer". Gallica. Retrieved 2018-08-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. MURER, Eugène (1865). Comment se vengent les bâtards (in French). Paris. OCLC 563020333.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. Murer, Eugène (1887). Pauline Lavinia (in French). Paris: J. Lévy. OCLC 465112018.
  14. Murer, Eugène (1888). La Mère nom de Dieu; [La Brûleuse]; [Les Poules noires]; [L'Araignée du coin]; [Un Rève de bourreau]; [Un Quart d'heure d'amour]; [Mam'selle Fleurette (in French). Paris: J. Lévy. OCLC 762444646.
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