Hippolyte Petitjean began his career as a painter-decorator. From 1867-1872 he attended the school of drawing in Mâcon. In 1872 he received a scholarship to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studied under Cabanel. He exhibited regularly in the salon from 1880 to 1891 and again from 1894 to 1901. In 1884, he met Seurat whose style influenced him greatly and from 1886 he painted in a Pointillist style. Up to 1898 he made his living as a decorator and that year became professor of drawing at the school in Rue de Patay. He also taught evening courses in Rue des Moulins-aux-prés. From 1892 to 1894 he took part in the Impressionist and Symobolist exhibitions. In 1919 he changed his style and returned to an old-fashioned type of Impressionism.
Paris Salon, 188
Independents, 1891-1892
Les XX, Brussels, 1893
Berlin, 1898
La Libre Esthetique, 1898
Durand-Ruel Gallery, 1899
Weimer, 1903
Wiesbaden, 1921
Galerie de l’Institut, one-man exhibition, 1955
Findlay Galleries, New York, one-man exhibition, 1959
Berlin
Inspection des Musées de Province, Paris
London
Louvre, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris
Oscar Ghez, Geneva
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York
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