Jan Monchablon

Jean-Baptiste Ferdinand Monchablon , called Jan Monchablon (born September 6, 1854 in Châtillon-sur-Saône , Département Vosges ; † 1904 ibid) was a French landscape painter .

Live and act

Monchablon was the son of Claude Ferdinand Monchablon, a senior official in Bar-le-Duc , and his wife Joséphine Vagneux. Most of his school days were at the Collège Notre-Dame in Nantes , Loire-Atlantique .

For some time Monchablon earned his living as a tutor and in the winter of 1874/75 he came to the college in Quimper , Finistère, as a teacher . In 1881 he managed to be accepted as a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . His teachers were mainly Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Paul Laurens .

In 1886 Monchablon went on a long study trip to and through the Netherlands to study the old masters and of course to be inspired by the landscape. From this time on he signed his works exclusively with “Jan Monchablon”.

He settled in his hometown and married Fanny Elisabeth Julien. Jan Monchablon died a few weeks after his 50th birthday in Châtillon-sur-Saône, where he found his final resting place.

Honors

At the suggestion of the art dealer Roland Knoedler (1856–1932), a friend of Jan Monchablons, the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929) created a bust (bronze) of this, which was erected in 1909 in Chaâtillon-sur-Saône. During the Second World War , this monument was destroyed by German soldiers.

Since July 14, 2010 (→ National Day) there has been a memorial plaque on the house where Jan Monchablon was born.

Works (selection)

• Vallée sur Saône .
• Le retour à l'étable .
• Pârurage .
• Amoureux près du puits .
• Moulin de Jonville .
• Grignoncourt .

literature

• Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, vol. 9 . New edition Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3019-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Messrs. M. Knoedler & Co. in New Nork (1856-2011).