Background
Albert Dubois-Pillet was born on October 28, 1846, in Paris, France.
Soon after his birth, the family relocated to Toulouse, France where Albert spent his childhood.
Albert Dubois-Pillet was born on October 28, 1846, in Paris, France.
Soon after his birth, the family relocated to Toulouse, France where Albert spent his childhood.
Albert Dubois-Pillet studied at the École spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in Guer, Brittany, France. He graduated in 1867.
As to the painting activity, Dubois-Pillet was an autodidact.
Albert Dubois-Pillet devoted all his life to the military service, starting his career as a military officer.
So, in 1870, Dubois-Pillet served for one year during the Franco-Prussian War and was imprisoned by the Germans. After the release, he joined the Versailles army. Then, Dubois-Pillet received the post at the French Republican Guard called la Légion de la Garde Républicaine.
Although Dubois-Pillet had no formal art education, his still lifes were accepted to the Paris Salon in 1877 and 1879.
In 1884, the painter cofounded along with his neo-impressionist colleagues Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, he had met in Paris, the Société des Artistes Indépendants or Society of Independent Artists. Since that time, the artist added to his name the surname Dubois and his mother's maiden name, Pillet, in order to hide his painting activity from the military. The first painting Dubois-Pillet demonstrated at the debut Salon des Indépendants, held the year of its foundation, became Died Child.
This period, the artist also explored Pointillism.
Although the army ordered him to stop his artistic activity, Dubois-Pillet participated regularly at the exhibitions of the Indépendants, including the shows in Nantes in 1886 and two expositions called Les XX in Brussels (1888 and 1889). The only one-man show of the painter took place at the offices of French symbolist journal Revue Indépendante in 1888.
The year following his solo debut, Albert Dubois-Pillet was sent by the army in Le Puy-en-Velay when he occupied the post of a commander of the local gendarmerie. This action was a response of the military forces on his refusal to drop down artistic career.
On his last canvases, the painter depicted churches and landscapes of Auvergne region.
Three Barges Moored on the Edge of an Industrial City
Still Life with Fish
Woman in a White Dress
Dead Child (detail)
Le Puy. The Sunny Plaza
The Banks of the Seine at Neuilly
Anchorage
Madame Bouchet and her Daughters
Bouquet of Roses in a Vase
View of Paris
Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe (Haute-Loire) under Snow
The Banks of the Marne at Dawn
Rouen, Seine and Hills at Canteleu
Winter Landscape
The Towers, Saint-Sulpice
Flowers in Three Vases
Landscape with Lock
The Marne at Dawn
Portrait of Monsieur Pool
Charlands sur La Seine
Little Circus Camp
Le Puy in the Snow
Still Life with a Painted Vase
Vase with Flowers
Still life in a Basket
Water Lilies
Wallflowers
Steamer in the Port of Rouen
Untitled
Untitled