Peintre de la Marine is a title awarded by the minister of defence

Minister of Defence (France)

The Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs is the French government cabinet member charged with running the military of France....

 in France

France

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 to artists who have devoted their talents to the sea, the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

 and other maritime subjects. It was set up in 1830 by the July Monarchy

July Monarchy

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 and can be awarded not only to painters but also to photographers, illustrators, engravers and sculptors.

Rights and privileges

The title is unpaid but does grant certain facilities and privileges:

• being able to embark on French Navy vessels
• wearing a uniform
• being allowed to follow one's artistic signature with an anchor
• belonging to the Service historique de la Marine.

The peintres agréés are named for a 3-year term by a jury of naval officiers and peintres titulaires and presided over by a general officer of the Navy. To become a peintre titulaire, one has to serve as a peintre agréé for more than 4 consecutive years.

1830-1899

• 1830 : Louis-Philippe Crépin
  Louis-Philippe Crépin
  Louis-Philippe Crépin was a French naval painter, one of the first Peintres de la Marine.Crépin was notably a pupil of Joseph Vernet and Hubert Robert....
  
  , Jean Antoine Théodore de Gudin
  Jean Antoine Théodore de Gudin
  Jean Antoine Théodore de Gudin was a French painter of the 19th century, born in Paris.He especially painted navy scenes, and was a pupil of Girodet-Trioson...
  
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• 1849 : E. Poidevin, dit Lepoidevin,
• 1854 : Léon Morel-Fatio,
• 1867 : P. de Crisenoy,
• 1875 : C. Longueville,
• 1876 : F. Roux,
• 1880 : F.-P. Barry,
• 1882 : L. Le Pic, P. Gaillard, Lepinay,
• 1883 : M. Willenich, Pompon,
• 1885 : Gaston. Roullet, E. Adam,
• 1886 : T. Weber,
• 1887 : G. Bourgain,
• 1888 : M. N. Saulnier de La Pinelais,
• 1889 : E. Dauphin,
• 1890 : L. Couturier, G. Le Sénéchal de Kerdreoret, A. Marcottes de Quivières, O. de Champeaux, La Boulaye, E. d'Argence,
• 1891 : E. Maillart, L. Dumoulin, E. Chigot, P. Jobert, P. Bertrand,
• 1892 : Moisson,
• 1893 : T. Poilpot,
• 1895 : P. Marsac, P. Liot,
• 1896 : C. Bellenger, G. Ravanne,
• 1898 : G. Vient, A. Johanson,
• 1899 : François Charles Cachoud, E. Noirot, M. Perret,
• 1900 : G. Galland, F. Legout-Gérard, P. Merwart, R. de Villars.

1901-1950

• 1901 : M. Roy - Félix Ziem
  Félix Ziem
  Félix Ziem was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School.Born Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem in Beaune in the Côte-d'Or département of the Burgundy région of France, his mother was a native of Burgundy who married a Croatian immigrant...
  
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• 1902 : P.-H. Simons,
• 1903 : F. Regamey,
• 1904 : G.-H Aubain, P. Place-Canton, A. Berthon,
• 1905 : Gustave Fraipont
  Gustave Fraipont
  Gustave Fraipont was a painter, sculptor, illustrator and poster-designer. Born in Belgium, he later became a naturalised French citizen....
  
  , L. E. de Jarny, M. Noire, F. Olivier, F. Guey,
• 1906 : P. La Gatier, A. Sébille,
• 1908 : E. Berthélémy, E. Chevalier, A. Delaistre, Charles Fouqueray,
• 1909 : R. Dumont-Duparc,
• 1910 : A. Chanteau, G. Chanteau, F.-H. Gauthier, L. P. Félix, H. Farre, Eugène François Deshayes,
• 1911 : L. Laurent-Gsell, A. Moreaux,
• 1912 : L.-E. Dauphin, F. Salkin,
• 1914 : A. Nivard, C. Cazes,
• 1915 : Paul Signac
  Paul Signac
  Paul Signac was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style.-Biography:Paul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on 11 November 1863...
  
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• 1916 : M. Maufra, L. Jonas, R. Desouches,
• 1917 : G. Taboureau, dit Sandy Hook,
• 1918 : A. Roux-Renard, L. Haffner, J. Lancelin, H. Lebasque,
• 1919 : A. Matisse,
• 1921 : Charles Millot alias H. Gervèse, G. Arnoux, Pierre Bodard, L. Bonamici, E.-L. Gillot, P. Morchain, R. Pinard, H.-E. Callot, P.-E. Lecomte, Mathurin Méheut
  Mathurin Méheut
  Mathurin Méheut was a French painter, ceramicist, engraver, and etcher best known for his depictions of Breton scenes, the sea, and nature....
  
  , Frédéric Montenard,
• 1922 : A. Dauchez, B. Lachèvre, F. Lantoine, C. Martin-Sauvaigo, J.-L. Paguenaud,
• 1923 : Llano Florez, G. F. Roussel, Du Gardier,
• 1924 : E. Barbaroux, J. R. Carrière, Paul Levéré, M. Moisset, R. Quillivic, G. Rollin de Vertury, J. Roque, A. Theunissen, P. Leconte,
• 1925 : L. Madrassi, Vitalis Morin, G. Cochet, G. Drageon,
• 1926 : G. Alaux, J. B. Roubaux,
• 1927 : J. Gaboriaux,
• 1928 : A. Silice, A. Gaussen, M. Gaussen,
• 1929 : M. Guyot, dit Guy Loe,
• 1930 : F. Alaux,
• 1931 : V.-L. Delpy,
• 1933 : J.-G. Daragnes, B. Roy, P. Roy, L. Simon, M. Vilalta,
• 1934 : E. Blandin,
• 1935 : Durand Coupel de Saint Front, dit Marin-Marie,
• 1936 : Albert Brenet, F. Pascal, M. Menardeau, P. Bertrand, L. Dalloz, P. Bompard, Roger Chapelet
  Roger Chapelet
  Roger Chapelet was a French maritime painter, born in Versailles, France.Originally from the Perigord province, he discovered his maritime passion boarding the Rollo in 1927, where his brother was a radio operator in the port of Marseilles. This was the beginning of his painting career at sea...
  
  , René-Yves Creston
  René-Yves Creston
  René-Yves Creston , born René Pierre Joseph Creston, was a Breton artist, designer and ethnographer who founded the Breton nationalist art movement Seiz Breur...
  
  , Jim Sévellec
  Jim Sévellec
  Jim Sévellec, born Eugène Sévellec, was a French painter.-Life:Eugène Sévellec was born at Camaret-sur-Mer. He grew up in an artistic colony around the author Saint-Pol-Roux and drew the life of the port whilst very young...
  
  , A. Verdihlan, J. Lacombe,
• 1938 : J. Maxence,
• 1940 : A. Goichon,
• 1942 : E. Berthier de Sauvigny, J. Bouchaud, H. Cahours, H. Cristol, G. Guiraud, M. Laurent, Pierre Péron,
• 1943 : Lucien Martial, P. Perraudin,
• 1944 : L.-M. Bayle, Fernand Herbo, P. Noël,
• 1945 : E. Ceria, J. Helleu, A. Lemoineau, A. Marquet, L. Pascal,
• 1947 : H. F. Baille, V. Barbey, F. Decaix, A. Bizette-Lindet, G. Fouille, Henri de Waroquier,
• 1948 : P. Dauchez, Charles Lapicque.

1950-99

• 1952 : C. Cerny, F. Desnoyers, Jean Even, André Hambourg,
• 1955 : R. Bezombes,
• 1956 : J. Delpech, Jean Rigaud
  Jean Rigaud
  Jean Rigaud is a well-listed French painter. He was born on June 15, 1912 in Bordeaux, France to the well-known painter, Pierre Gaston Rigaud . The Rigauds moved to the village of Guyenne in 1914, shortly after World War I began. It was during this time that Jean Rigaud received his first formal...
  
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• 1957 : Louis Chervin,
• 1959 : Jacques Boullaire, L. Gambier,
• 1960 : M. Douguet,
• 1962 : Albert Decaris
  Albert Decaris
  Albert Decaris was a French artist, engraver, painter and aquarellist.At only 19, he won the Concours de Rome, the most prised award for young artists in France at the time...
  
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• 1963 : G. Hervigo,
• 1973 : François Baboulet, M. Depré, Michel King, J. Bouyssou, Henri Plisson, Gaston Sébire, R. Yan,
• 1975 : Jean-Pierre Alaux, François Bellec, Jean Dieuzaide, J. Courboules,
• 1977 : Michel Hertz, Jean-Jacques Morvan,
• 1979 : Jean Le Merdy, J. Peltier, Roger Montane,
• 1981 : Arnaud d'Hauterives, Marc Monkowicki, Claude Schurr,
• 1983 : André Bourrié, Jean-Marie Chourgnoz, Serge Marko,
• 1987 : Michel Bernard, Michel Bez, R. Savary,
• 1989 : J. Cluseau Lanauve, Jean-Gabriel Montador, Michel Tesmoingt, Jean-Paul Tourbatez,
• 1991 : Marc-Pierre Berthier, Michel Jouenne, Philip Plisson, Stéphane Ruais,
• 1993 : Paul Ambille, Pierre Courtois, F. Perhirin,
• 1995 : Jacques Coquillay, Christiane Rosset,
• 1997 : Claude Fauchère, Christoff Debusschere, Jean-Pierre Le Bras, Alain Bailhache,
• 1999 : Roland Lefranc.

21st century

• 2001 : Patrick Camus, John Pendray, Ronan Olier,
• 2003 : Michèle Battut (painter), Michel Bellion, Titouan Lamazou, Christian Le Corre, Richard Texier
  Richard Texier
  Richard Texier is a French painter and sculptor born in Niort in 1955.- Biography :1955: Birth in Niort France on the Atlantic coast, these childhood landscapes have always profoundly marked his work as an artist....
  
  , Jean-Marie Zacchi
• 2005 : Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.- Early life :Yann Arthus-Bertrand was born in Paris on March 13, 1946 in a renowned jewellers' family founded in 1803 by Claude Arthus-Bertrand and Michel-Ange Marion. His sister Catherine is one of his...
  
   (photographer), Éric Bari, Jean Lemonnier (sculptor), Anne Smith, Dirk Verdoorn
  Dirk Verdoorn
  Dirk Verdoorn, born in 1957 in Dordrecht, is a French peintre de la marine from the Netherlands.He spent his childhood on a barge at the confluence of the Waal, the Meuse and the Merwede, before settling in France...
  
  ,
• 2008 : Jean Gaumy
  Jean Gaumy
  Jean Gaumy is a French photographer and filmmaker who has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1977.-Career:Gaumy was born in Pontaillac, Charente-Maritime, France. He attended school in Toulouse and Aurillac and went to university in Rouen. While a student in Rouen, he began working as a...
  
  , Nicolas Vial.

External links

• Site officiel des Peintres de la Marine
• peintres officiels de la marine
• Net-Marine Associations sur la Marine Nationale
• Musée National de la Marine