Jean-Antoine Constantin

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Self-portrait (around 1830)

Jean-Antoine Constantin (born January 21, 1756 in Bonneveine near Marseille , † January 9, 1844 in Aix-en-Provence ) was a French landscape painter and draftsman .

Life

From 1767 onwards, Constantin started an apprenticeship at the faience factory of Joseph Gaspard Robert in Marseille . From 1771 he attended the art academy ( Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture ), where he received artistic training from Jean-Joseph Kappeler, Joseph Antoine David and Jean-Baptiste Giry .

View of Marseille
Louvre, Paris
Paysage (1787)
Magnin Museum , Digne

After his first independent activity in Aix-en-Provence, he moved to Rome in 1777 , where he stayed for six years. There, under the influence of Salomon van Ruysdael and Karel Dujardin , he made nature-oriented depictions of landscapes and, from 1780, numerous nature studies . In 1783 he returned prematurely to Aix due to an illness and was appointed director of the drawing school in 1786 . After the school closed in the wake of the French Revolution and due to ongoing financial difficulties, he accepted a position as a drawing teacher in Digne-les-Bains in 1798 . After nine years he returned to Aix and co-founded the Société des Amis des Sciences, des Lettres, de l'Agriculture et des Arts there in 1798 . He became an honorary member of the newly founded drawing school ( Ecole communale gratuite de dessin ), where he worked from 1813 to 1830 as an assistant professor . In 1817 he received a gold medal for a Provencal landscape with the title Cascade de Silan at the Paris exhibition, where he exhibited several times in the following years . During the restoration period he was sponsored and financially supported by his former students, Count Auguste de Forbin and François-Marius Granet .

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Études de paysans
Louvre , Paris
La Fontaine de Vaucluse
Calvet Museum , Avignon

Constantin mainly painted landscape pictures in oil and watercolor . He committed himself to outdoor painting at an early stage and had an excellent talent as a draftsman. He mastered the ink and red chalk technique and used them for the analytical representation of mineral and vegetable landscape structures, of contrasting Mediterranean light and for light and dark effects of foliage. Occasionally he also drew historical landscapes and landscapes in the troubadour style . As a respected teacher, he exerted influence on Provencal painting in the first half of the 19th century.

Around 1200 of his drawings are now in the Musée Granet (Aix-en-Provence).

Awards

  • Honorary member of the Aix Drawing School
  • 1817 gold medal at the Paris exhibition
  • 1833 Chevalier of the Legion of Honor

Works (selection)

  • Aix-en-Provence, Granet Museum
Ste Victoire
Supplice de Promethée
Religieux en prière attaqué par les Mahométans (1830)
  • Avignon, Musée Calvet
La fontaine de Vaucluse
  • Digne, Magnin Museum
Paysage (1787)
  • Fontainebleau, Château
Grasse
Bord de rivière
Monastère
Orage (1827)
  • Paris, Musée d'Orsay
La rade de Marseille

literature

Web links

Commons : Jean-Antoine Constantin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Elmar Stolpe: Constantin, Jean-Antoine . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 20, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22760-4 , p. 585.
  2. ^ A b Henri Stein: Constantin, Jean Antoine . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 326 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Constantin, Jean-Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Constantin, Jean Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French landscape painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonneveine near Marseille
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1844
Place of death Aix-en-Provence