Jules Laurens
Jules Joseph Augustin Laurens (born July 25, 1825 in Carpentras , † May 5, 1901 in Saint-Didier , Département Vaucluse ) was a French painter , etcher , draftsman , wood cutter and writer .
life and work
Laurens received lessons from his brother and then from Paul Delaroche and first appeared with some drawings in the 1840 Salon. From 1846 to 1849 he toured Turkey and Persia with Xavier Hommaire de Hell . The fruit of this expedition was Voyage en Turquie et en Perse (Paris 1854 to 1860, four volumes with atlas), published under Hell's name , in which the illustrations come from Laurens. He concentrated mainly on watercolors and especially on lithographs, a large number of which he supplied, partly from his own drawings and partly from those of French painters; they show an easy, simple manner, correctness and breadth of drawing. Worth mentioning are 20 sheets of Views from the Vosges Mountains based on drawings by Bellel ( Les Vosges , with text by Théophile Gautier , 1860) and the heads of women in Soulary's Album des dames (1864).
literature
- L.-H. Labande: Jules Laurens. ouvrage illustré d'aprés les oeuvres de l'artiste. H. Champion, Paris 1910.
- Jules Laurens'ın Türkiye yolculuğu. = Le voyage de Jules Laurens en Turquie. Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık, Istanbul 1998, ISBN 975-363886-8 (exhibition catalog).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laurens, Jules |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laurens, Jules Joseph Augustin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter, etcher, draftsman, wood cutter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carpentras |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1901 |
| Place of death | Saint Didier |