Sennelier
Sign in to savethumb|Vintage photo of the shop window of Sennelier. Sennelier is a French manufacturing company of art materials, mostly famous for its hand selected pigments. The company produces a wide range of paint products, including acrylic, oil, watercolor, gouache, oil and soft pastel, india ink, tempera, and other media.
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- Instance of
- business
- Country
- France
- Headquarters
- Paris
- Official website
- www.sennelier-colors.com
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- inception
- 1887-01-01
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thumb|Vintage photo of the shop window of Sennelier. Sennelier is a French manufacturing company of art materials, mostly famous for its hand selected pigments. The company produces a wide range of paint products, including acrylic, oil, watercolor, gouache, oil and soft pastel, india ink, tempera, and other media.
==History== Gustave Sennelier opened this art supply store in 1887, near the famous Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Initially, Sennelier sold paints made by various manufacturers; later he chose to produce his own paints using local pigments and binders procured from his travels across Europe.
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