Louis Letronne

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ludwig van Beethoven, copper engraving by Blasius Höfel after the drawing by Louis Letronne, 1814
Attributed to Louis Letronne: Beethoven. White heightened pencil drawing with the inscription –1821– , 16 × 12 cm, Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Louis René Letronne (* 1790 in Paris ; † 1842 ibid) was a French portrait miniaturist , draftsman and lithographer .

Life

Letronne was the son of the engraver Jean Louis Letronne (1766-1801) and the younger brother of the archaeologist Jean Antoine Letronne (1787-1848). Like this he studied with Jacques-Louis David and Nicola-André Monsiau (1754-1837). In 1805 he came to Vienna with the French army and there helped the later furniture manufacturer Joseph Ulrich Danhauser to set up a factory for wood bronze goods. During the Congress of Vienna he created numerous portraits of important personalities.

His most famous work was created in 1814, a pencil drawing by Ludwig van Beethoven , which was revised by Blasius Höfel for the Artaria publishing house and engraved in copper and which was widely used. It is unclear whether a white pencil drawing with the inscription "1821", which was in the collection of the French investment banker André Meyer (1898–1979) for a long time, should be addressed as Letronne's original. It was auctioned at Sotheby’s together with the collection in 2012 and now belongs to the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris.

In 1817 Letronne settled in Warsaw , where he founded a drawing school and a publishing house in which he also published music, including works by Maria Szymanowska . In 1829 he returned to Paris and made trips to Munich and Dresden from there .

The lithographic institute in Paris, led by Letronne, was also active in the field of cartography and published an atlas of France in 1839 .

Works (selection)

  • Plan de la ville de Crémone . Pour l'explication de la surprise de cette ville, par le Prince Eugène de Savoie , pendant la nuit du 31 Janvier 1702 . Paris 1837. ( gallicalabs.bnf.fr digitized).
  • Nouvel atlas communal de la France en 90 feuilles, dedié à la chambre des députés; contenant une carte générale comparative, celle de l'Algérie et une carte particulière pour chaque départment, dressé par Charle. Exécuté sous la direction de Letronne. Letronne, Paris 1838.

literature

Web links

Commons : Louis Letronne  - Collection of Images

References and comments

  1. ↑ The alleged original (photo and text on it in the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, B 972 / a) Retrieved on June 11, 2015
  2. ^ Dataset in the DNB catalog. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ This information can be found in the biography of his son Joseph Danhauser , in: Österreichische Revue Jg. 3, 3/4, 1865, pp. 146–165, here p. 147 ( digitized version , accessed on June 12, 2015).
  4. ↑ The executed at point style engraving with explanations, Beethoven House Bonn, Wegeler Collection, W 25. Retrieved on June 9, 2015
  5. ↑ Description of the process by Alexander Wheelock Thayer: Ludwig van Beethoven's life . Volume 3, Chapter 9, p. 436 f. Accessed June 11, 2015
  6. ↑ Figure ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gallicalabs.bnf.fr
  7. ↑ Ludwig Finscher: Music in the past and present . Second, revised edition, Sachteil Vol. 6, Kassel 1997, Sp. 1775; Maria Szymanowska . In music and gender on the internet. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  8. ^ Advertisement in the Journal des Savants. Paris 1838 ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Letronne, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Letronne, Louis René (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1842
Place of death Paris