Eugene A. Lachaise 1857-1925
New York
painter

I am looking for Eugene A. Lachaise parents and biography

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Birth/Death; - 1857 (New York City)
- 1925 (Paris, France)
Lived/Active; New York / France
Often Known For: genre and figure painting

- Madame Sorchan, nee Catherine Thorn, was the American mother of Eugene Lachaise, a fellow art student with Sargent in Paris. In the summer of I877, Lachaise

- 1884 8418 - Marius Sorchan, inscribed: To my friend Lachaise John S. Sargent 1884. Mrs. Horace Binney. 
John Singer Sargent - Works in Oil 1880 - 1889 From "John Singer Sargent: A Biography" by Charles Merrill Mount First Edition - 1955 - W. W. Norton & Co. (out of print)

Artist Eugene Armand Lachaise
Title The geisha girl
Year 1890
Medium Oil on Canvas
Size 31.1 x 35.8 in. / 79 x 91 cm.
Misc. Signed
Sale Of Christie's East: Wednesday, October 25, 2000
[Lot 83]
19th Century Paintings

Artist Eugene Armand Lachaise
Title Danse japonaise
Year 1889
Medium Oil on Canvas
Size 48.8 x 65.4 in. / 124 x 166 cm.
Misc. Signed
Sale Of Sotheby's London: Tuesday, June 3, 2003
[Lot 163]
19th Century European Paintings including German, Austrian, Hungarian & Slavic Works and the Scandinavian Sale

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- 1884 8418 - Marius Sorchan, inscribed: To my friend Lachaise John S. Sargent 1884. Mrs. Horace Binney. 

John Singer Sargent - Works in Oil

1880 - 1889

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Hello, I got by chance this message. I own a painting by Eugène-Armand Lachaise (1857-1925). I'd like to get information about him and especially about his artistic career. I suppose, he was the son of Armand Lachaise (from Lyon, France) and Anne Thorne (from New York). Is that right?
Thanks for your help.
François

It is difficult to say, so far we cannot check the Lachaise's from Lyon genealogy we cannot be sure.
So far I know Armand Lachaise who married Anne Thorne from New York had two daughters, Victorine and Annie.
From Victorine, my gggrand-mother we know a lot. From her family almost nothing.
I happened to know that Armand married a second time, another Thorne, and had as children Eugene and Isabel whose destiny I am looking for, they or theirs children could give informations about the family.
As a piece of information I can say that Victorine was good on hand drawing ( une excellente dessinatrice) and that she gave that gift to her son, Victor H. Bourgeois, who painted all his life.
Tell me everything you find on Eugene Armand Lachaise 1857-1925 and we will see if we can find evidences.
Do you have a photograph of him ?
Comparing with Victorine Bourgeois-Lachaise's photograph we should see if they fit to the same family.
Anyway Lyon is a small city, this is an important family, after all Armand was the son of a Gouverneur de Lyon, this should not be very difficult to get theirs genealogy.
Let's be careful, Lachaise is a common name in France and the Net gives another artist, a Gaston Lachaise, maybe they are related.
You are welcomed
S./Fribourg/Suisse/Switzerland

14 Jun 2003 9:52 AM GMT

Thanks so much for your first help.
Unfortunately, I don't have any picture of Eugène-Armand Lachaise (1857-1925), I do only have this painting, depicting a fine Japanese interior subject and dated 1889. I've no idea as well about an eventual connection with the artist named Gaston Lachaise.
Anyway, this interesting painting will be part of the works, which will be exhibited at the "Salon du Collectionneur" in Paris beginning of September 2003.
Hope I'll have time to get further information.
Thanks again.
François Louveau

Thanks for the message.
I check as soon as possible the "dictionnaire Benezit" of the painters, he must be recorded.
Amazing that your painting is a japanese subject.
My great uncle, Victor H. Bourgeois, who would be a nephew of Eugene Armand Lachaise 1857-1925, had an extensive travel to Japan by the beginning of the 20th century, we have his full reports on the travel, wrote for a local newspaper.
If by any chance you have a scann of the painting I can have it on the Lachaise page.
Tout ceci font des coincidences qui peuvent en faire le demi-frere de Victorine Bourgeois-Lachaise-Thorne.
You are welcomed
S./Fribourg

Message pour François Louveau dont le mail n'est malheureusement plus valable.
Faisant des recherches sur le protecteur et tuteur de ma grand-mère Eugène Armand La Chaise, j'ai trouvé plein de coincidence me permettant de le relier presque parfaitement au Eugène Lachaise, peintre, né en 1857 dont François Louveau possédait un tableau en 2003. Je serais très intéressé de pouvoir partager mes informations. je dois avoir quelques photos de lui dans le grenier et connais une partie de son histoire.

Baptisé à New York en MDCCCLVIII (1858) St Clement's Church N.Y.
il a été a bord de l'Algeria le 6 décembre 1879
Au Caire en janvier 1879
American Field Service medal comme volontaire dans les American Ambulance (1919)
Croix d'Officier de l'Ordre National de la légion d'Honneur 13 janvier 1918
A voyager en Chine et au Japon (je pense en 1889-1890) d'après les peintures que j'ai trouvé sur le net

Voilà en gros les informations que j'ai réussi à obtenir à ce jour, je continue à fouiller les papiers que j'ai découvert aujourd'hui.
Merci de bien vouloir faire suivre ce message à toute les personnes qui ont essayé d'obtenir des informations sur E.A. Lachaise
Meilleures salutations / Patrick de Sépibus

Merci pour le message Lachaise, dument reproduit sur le Net.
Vous connaissez ces Lachaise de Lyon ?
Si oui j'aimerais en savoir un peu plus. et ce peintre Eugene ne 1857 ? Lachaise etant un nom commun en France cela rend nos recherches difficiles, on a plus de chances en cooperant./ 1er novembre 2006

Lachaise/New York
Thorne/USA
Thorne

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