Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder

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Jacques Sarazin , portrait by Charles-Nicolas Cochin, 1731

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder (born April 29, 1688 in Paris ; † July 7, 1754 ibid.), Also called Charles-Nicolas Cochin père or Charles-Nicolas Cochin l'ancien , was a French draftsman, etcher and engraver.

life and work

Charles-Nicolas Cochin was born in Paris into a family of painters and engravers. He received his first lessons from his father, the painter Charles Cochin (1619–1689). Charles-Nicolas worked as a painter until he was 22, then exclusively as an etcher and engraver. In addition to portraits, he made copperplate engravings and etchings based on pictures. a. by François Boucher , Antoine Watteau , Nicolas Lancret , and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin . In his later years he mainly worked in the workshop and printing shop of his son Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder. J. (1715–1790), under whose direction the company developed into one of the most important production facilities for high-quality copperplate engravings in Europe.

In 1729 Charles-Nicolas Cochin was admitted to an exhibition at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture for the first time , and in 1731 he was accepted into this academy. On this occasion, he engraved portraits of the sculptor and founder of the Académie, Jacques Sarazin , and the painter Eustache Le Sueur , also a member of the Académie, in copper. In 1739 he exhibited four reproduction engravings after paintings by Jean Siméon Chardin at the Académie . In the salon of 1740 he showed a total of five pictures: “La bénédicité”, “La mère laborieuse” and “La maîtresse d'école” as well as two engravings after Chardin.

Cochin was the official court artist of Louis XIV. He died in Paris in 1754 in his apartment in the Galéries du Louvre . He left behind more than 300 works that are of great artistic quality. His etchings based on paintings are considered exemplary, both in terms of technical perfection and in terms of the implementation of a painting in another medium.

family

Charles-Nicolas Cochin was a member of the painter and engraver dynasty Cochin-Horthemels. There is little reliable data about his father Charles Cochin. He was a painter, probably from Troyes , married to Marie-Marthe de la Farge and worked in Paris, where he also died. The Horthemels originally came from the Netherlands, were followers of the Dutch theologian Cornelius Jansen and had connections to the Paris abbey of Port-Royal des Champs , the center of the Jansenists in France. Since 1713 he was married to Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels (1686–1767), who was active as a copper engraver for over 50 years. The son of Louise-Magdeleine and Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Charles-Nicolas Cochin, called the Younger, was also a copper engraver and court artist at the court of Louis XIV.

Louise-Magdeleine's sisters Marie-Nicole Horthemels (1689–1745) and Marie-Anne Horthemels were also active as engravers, as was a younger brother. Marie-Nicole was married to the portrait painter Alexis Simon Belle , Marie-Anne was married to Nicolas-Henri Tardieu for the second time . Tardieu, a member of the Académie since 1720 , was one of the most renowned and productive engravers of his time. Their son Jacques Nicolas Tardieu also became an engraver.

literature

  • Christian Michel: Charles-Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustré au XVIIIe siècle. Avec un catalog raisonné des livres illustrés par Cochin. 1735-1790. Droz, Geneva 1987, OCLC 21816113 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexandra Matzner: Jean Siméon Chardin, Parisian master of still life and genre painting. In: Artinwords. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  2. ^ Eugène Piot: Le cabinet de l'amateur. Années 1861 et 1862. Didot, Paris 1863, p. 178.
  3. ↑ Les Cochins. In: Larousse: Dictionnaire de la peinture.
  4. ^ G. Fries, M. Turquois: Cochin, Étienne. In: Saur. General artist lexicon . Volume 20, 1998, p. 58.
  5. ^ Dictionnaire critique de biographies d'histoire. Errata et supplements. 1867, p. 304.
  6. ^ Charles-Nicolas Cochin, accessed February 20, 2017.
  7. ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on December 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Cochin, Charles-Nicolas the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cochin, Charles – Nicolas the Elder; Cochin, Charles – Nicolas Père; Cochin, Charles – Nicolas l'Ancien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French draftsman, eraser and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1688
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1754
Place of death Paris