Émile-René Ménard: A Painter of Tranquility and Dreamlike Vision Émile-René Ménard (15 April 1862 – 13 January 1930) was a French painter born in Paris. From early childhood he was immersed in an artistic environment: Corot, Millet and the Barbizon painters frequented his family home, familiarizing him thus with both landscape and antique subjects. Ménard studied at the Académie Julian from 1880 after having been a student of Baudry, Bouguereau, and Henri Lehmann. He participated in the Salon of the Secession in Munich, and the Salon de la Libre Esthétique in Brussels during 1897. Several pe…