André Durand (lithographer)

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Durand (1841)
Lübeck : Town Hall and Market (1839)

André Durand (born May 5, 1807 in Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie in the Seine-Inférieure department , † August 10, 1867 in Paris ) was a French painter, draftsman and lithographer of the 19th century.

Life

Durand attended the art school in Rouen , where he became a student of Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777-1837). He specialized in drawings and lithographs of old monuments, which he repeatedly showed in the Paris Salon from 1833 to 1864 . On behalf of the large Russian industrialist and patron Anatole Demidoff di San Donato , who lives in Paris and Florence , he traveled to Russia in 1839 and made 100 lithographs there for his work Voyage pittoresque et archéologique en Russie (1840), which was published in Paris . On the way to Russia, Durand came through northern Germany and made imaginative views of the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck as well as other places on his route. The staffage figures in the pictures of his journey were added by Auguste Raffet (1804–1860) after his return home . Around 1850 he worked again for Demidoff. First he took pictures of monuments in Belgium, later views of Demidoff's second center of life, Florence, and the surrounding Tuscany. As a member of the French Committee of Ancient Antiquities, he wrote writings and essays on this subject.

Works

Moscow 1839

Illustrations

  • Anatolīĭ Demidov (principe di San Donato), André Durand, Denis Auguste Marie Raffet: Voyage pittoresque et archéologique en Russie par le Hâvre, Hambourg, Lubeck, Saint-Petersbourg, Moscou, Nijni-Novgorod, Yaroslaw et Kazan, exécutée en 1839 sous la direction de M. Anatole de Démidoff. Paris, Gihaut frères, (1840–1848)
  • La Toscane. Album Pittoresque et archéologique. Engravings André Durand, text by A. De Sainson, printed by Parigi da Lemercier, (1862–1863)

Fonts

  • Notice archéologique et historique sur la conservation de la Tour Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie à Paris: adressée au Comité de la langue, de l'histoire et des arts de la France, institué au Ministère de l'instruction publique et des cultes. D. Brière, 1858
  • Notice historique sur la conservation de l'ancienne Eglise de Saint-Laurent à Rouen, et l'utilité d'approprier ce monument comme annexe au Musée des Antiquités du département, adressée à la commission des Antiquités de la Seine-inférieure. Août 1860. E. Brière, 1860

literature

Web links

Commons : André Durand  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ alceste-art.com ( Memento from January 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Description in Christie's (2011).
  3. ↑ palazzo-medici.it
personal data
SURNAME Durand, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, draftsman and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie in the Seine-Inférieure department
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1867
Place of death Paris