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This is a drawing or a wash.
It is an ink hand-made by Jean-Jacques Champin (1796-1860). This artist is listed on Artprice.
On the back we find this inscription: "Purchased in Brest, from a framer on rue Jean Macé, below my father I had it framed at Mme Saluden's".
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Dimensions:
Frame
Height: 43 cm
Width: 58 cm
View
Height: 23 cm
Width: 30.5 cm
C2210
Jean-Jacques Champin was born in 1796 in Sceaux. Champin was interested in a still new art, lithography (invented in 1798) and thus produced in 1816 his first lithograph, The Church of Sceaux and the entrance to the park of Trévise.
A student of Félix Storelli and Jacques Auguste Regnier, Jean-Jacques Champin thus devoted himself mainly to historical landscapes. To this end, he undertook travels, from the visit of the Grande Chartreuse in 1823, the Pyrenees in 1825, to Italy in 18301 and, in liaison with Regnier, produced the Picturesque Views of the main castles and pleasure houses in the surroundings of Paris and the departments in 1826, the Dwellings of the most famous people of France since 1790 until today from 1831 to 1835, The Seine and its surroundings in 1836, Paris historique. Walks in the streets of Paris (three volumes in 1838).
During this period of collaboration with his master Regnier, Jean-Jacques Champin was introduced to the Parisian circle of the Literary Salon held at the Arsenal library by the person who was its administrator from 1824, Charles Nodier, and where Champin was able to meet Pierre-Jean David d'Angers, Honoré de Balzac, Eugène Delacroix, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, Alphonse de Lamartine, Franz Liszt, Prosper Mérimée, Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Isidore Taylor and Alfred de Vigny. This is how Charles Nodier is the author of the introduction to the above-mentioned work Habitations des personnages les plus célèbre de la France depuis 1790 jusqu'à nos jours for which he draws, in addition to the Arsenal, the house of Victor Hugo on rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, those of Honoré de Balzac on rue Cassini, of Baron Gérard in Auteuil or of Juliette Récamier in Aulnay.
Jean-Jacques Champin draws Sceaux, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Bagneux, Le Plessis-Robinson, Verrières-le-Buisson, Meudon, the Chevreuse valley, the Mesnil park in Savigny-sur-Orge, Étampes, this part of his work documenting the development of the railway which is the mode of transport used, while his wife paints flowers at Vilmorin in Verrières-le-Buisson. He then contributed his drawings to Magasin pittoresque, La Mode, L'Illustration (from 1835 to 1854) and to many other illustrated publications of his time. The Dictionnaire Bénézit, Gérald Schurr and Micheline Henry agree to recall that, around 1850-1852, Jean-Jacques Champin executed religious paintings which, like Jesus on the mountain, The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, Jesus with the olive trees, were noted by the critics of their time, part of the work where the second sees the influence of orientalism and which the third describes as “rather austere”.
Jean-Jacques Champin died in 1860.
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