Nicolas-Eustache Maurin

Nicolas-Eustache Maurin (born March 6, 1799 in Perpignan , Département Pyrénées-Orientales , † 1850 in Paris ) was a French lithographer and engraver .

Live and act

Maurin was the younger son of the painter Pierre Maurin ; his older brother was the painter Antoine Maurin (1793-1860).

Maurin received his first artistic lessons in his father's studio. With his support, two of his works were accepted for the first time in 1833 for the major exhibition at the Salon de Paris . In 1834 and 1835 Maurin was also able to take part in these annual exhibitions.

reception

Maurin's erotic pictures quickly became the “talk of the town” and found collectors from the start. His illustrations for works of fiction were just as popular as his numerous portraits.

Works (selection)

Portraits

• The Polish general Ludwik Michał Pac (1832)
• The Polish General Józef Dwernicki (1833)
• The French anatomist and surgeon Gilbert Breschet , 1784–1845 (1834)
• The French politician Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès (around 1835)

Book illustrations

• Victor Hugo : Notre-Dame de Paris (Paris 1831)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust. Une tragédie (Paris 1838)
• Juste de Bourmancé (Ed.): Cent jours de la vie d'un grand homme (together with Victor Adam , Paris 1841)

student

• Henri Regnault (1843–1871)

literature

• Nicolas-Eustache Maurin . In: Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. De tous les temps et tous les pays, Vol. 9: Maganza - Muller-Zschoppach . Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3019-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Breschet, Gilbert. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , pp. 208 f.