page_title: Antoine Vollon
section_title: Later years and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Antoine Vollon / Later years and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Antoine Vollon (photo has been cropped)
context_page_description: Antoine Vollon was a French realist artist, best known as a painter of still lifes, landscapes, and figures. During his lifetime, Vollon was a successful celebrity, enjoyed an excellent reputation, and was called a "painter's painter". In 2004, New York's then-PaceWildenstein gallery suggested that his "place in the history of French painting has still not been properly assessed".
context_section_description: Carol Forman Tabler wrote:
  "Once Vollon began exhibiting at the Salon, he quickly gained recognition from the critics and the public at large, and, most importantly, from Second-Empire officialdom. He had learned how to play the political game that would earn him State patronage and enable him to win numerous awards...."
  Tabler describes his ambition and the decades-long strategies Vollon used to secure a place in history. After one year in the Salon des Refusés in 1863, beginning in 1864 he exhibited his work at the Paris Salon. Vollon won a third-class medal in 1865, a second-class in 1868, and first-class in 1869. Vollon was a member of the Salon's jury for at least ten years starting in 1870.
  Jean-Baptiste Olive's (1848-1936) still lifes were influenced by his works. Vollon also had students,  among whom were Raymond Allègre (1857-1933), Joseph Garibaldi (1863-1941), Henri Michel-Lévy (1845-1914), Théo Mayan (1860-1936) and Gustave le Sénéchal de Kerdréoret (1840-1933).
  He became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1870, and eight years later received the Officer's cross. He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1897. In 1900 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Paris World's Fair.
  In July of that same year Vollon suffered a stroke while painting at Versailles and later caught a fever. He died shortly thereafter, on 27 August 1900, at the age of 66. He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
caption: Photograph of Vollon in 1900 by Petit
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