(b Neuch?tel, 30 Sept 1830; d Berne, 3 Aug 1890). Swiss painter. He was taught drawing by the painter Albert Anker; in 1850 he went to Paris, where he entered the studio of Charles Gleyre. In 1852 he moved to the studio of Thomas Couture, and his work subsequently became more colourful. He exhibited in the Paris Salons from 1857 to 1874, and from 1851 he regularly sent a selection of his works to the Exposition des Amis des Arts in Neuch?tel. His Swiss genre paintings, such as Alpine Reapers (1863; La Chaux-de-Fonds, Mus. B.-A.), were admired, but with the painting Switzerland on the Banks of the Rhine (1858; La Chaux-de-Fonds, Mus. B.-A.) he began a career as a painter of military scenes. The paintings were distinguished by their pacifistic tendencies: he preferred to show soldiers fraternizing rather than fighting, as in Military Fraternity (1884; Neuch?tel, Mus. A. & Hist.), which depicts friendship between Swiss and Prussian soldiers.

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