Charles Motte
Charles Etienne Pierre Motte (born November 2, 1784 or 1785 in Paris ; † December 5, 1836 ibid) was a French draftsman of portraits and histories , lithographer and illustrator and publisher of prints .
Life
Le Déménagement de la Censure (The move of the censorship) , around 1821, lithograph by Charles Motte after a drawing by Eugène Delacroix
On October 17, 1817, Motte, a draftsman and etcher since his youth , was one of the first in his field to receive a license to operate a lithographic establishment. His Paris-based company printed a large number of products, including a barricade map of the July Revolution of 1830 and the lithographic part of the Grammaire égyptienne by Jean-François Champollion . Motte was represented at the Salon de Paris in 1827 and 1831 .
Motte was the father-in-law of the painter Achille Devéria .
literature
- Motte, Charles Étienne Pierre . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931.
- Marie-Christine Clæs: Autour de la Grammaire égyptienne de Champollion. Marcellin Jobard, Charles Motte et Jules Feuquières, utilisateurs de la lithographie pour l'impression des hiéroglyphes . In: Bulletin des Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire . Brussels, Volume 82, 2011 [2013], pp. 55–99.
Web links
Commons : Charles Motte - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Charles Motte , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ↑ See article Charles Motte in the French Wikipedia
- ↑ Tom Ullrich: Repair after the revolution. Cultural techniques of disorder on the Parisian streets of the 19th century . In: Stefan Krebs, Gabriele Schabacher, Heike Weber (eds.): Cultures of repairing: things - knowledge - practices . transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-3860-8 , p. 382
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Motte, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Motte, Charles Etienne Pierre (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French draftsman of portraits and histories, lithographer and illustrator and publisher of prints |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1784 or November 2, 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1836 |
| Place of death | Paris |