Alexandre Colin

Alexandre Colin , born with Paris the December 5th 1798 and dead the November 21st 1875, is a painter and Lithographe French.

Close friend of Delacroix and Bonington, it belongs to the romantic school, covering subjects inspired of Shakespeare, Byron, Walter Scott. Alexandre Colin is known to be a large portraitist, in particular of actors in the costumes of their roles. He also paints romantic subjects, sights of Italy and scenes of the fight for the Guerre of Greek independence. Like Delacroix and many artists and intellectuals of his time, it takes part in two important exposures to the profit of the Greeks to the Lebrun gallery in 1826.

Biography

Entered in 1814 with the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts, he is the pupil of Girodet before joining in 1816 the workshop of Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, attended by Delacroix. It begins with the Salon in 1819 with a portrait from woman, and 29 works until in to it 1868 exposes. It obtains there a medal of second class in 1824 and 1831, and one of first class in 1840. In 1825, Bonington and Colin make a stay of a few months with London. They are joined there by Delacroix, then return together to Paris via Saint-Omer, where they become acquainted with the painter Hippolyte-Joseph Cuvelier (1803-1876). Alexandre Colin exposes three fabrics to the Royal Academy of London in 1829.

From 1834 to 1838, his/her friend Charles Rivet (1800-1872), appointed prefect of Nimes, entrusts to him the direction of the art school of the city. It calls there his brother, Paul-Hubert Colin, with the head of the school of sculpture and drawing of ornament which it has just created.

Named in 1849 Master of drawing of the Polytechnic school, it realizes in 1863-1865 for the School of the portraits in medallion of Lamblardie, Monge, Carnot, Prior-Duvernois, Fourcroy, Lagrange and Berthollet, as well as and of Napoleon III.

In 1851, it is in charge of the decoration of the church Saint-Roch in Paris in the 1st district. It carries out there two classified tables historic buildings, the Funeral of saint Nicolas and Saint Nicolas alleviating the storm .

Works

; France
  • Museum of the Art schools of Arras: a drowned sailor saved by fishermen ,
  • Museum Rolin (Autun): Sara the bather , (1838)
  • Museum Calvet (Avignon): Portrait of Arrow-maker, bishop of Nimes (1837)
  • Museum Baron Gerard (Bayeux): Scene of brigands
  • Museum of the Art schools of Béziers: Christophe Colomb in front of the Council of Salamanque (Living room of 1843)
  • Museum of the Art schools and the Lace of Calais: Arab in prayer , Self-portrait (1871), Hippolyte Cuvelier and his small son Henri , Jean Bart , fish Commercial, Odalisque , Portrait of Gustave Cuvelier (1865), Portrait of young Gustave Cuvelier , Portrait of Madeleine Cuvelier , Portrait of Hippolyte Cuvelier or the man with the hat , Portrait of Hortense Cuvelier
  • Museum Magnin (Dijon): Young girl sitting in a meadow , Italian of Ischia close to the cradle of his/her child , the Two Friends
  • Museum of the Art schools of Nancy: Raphaël in the Roman countryside
  • Museum of the Art schools of Nimes: François I {{er}} visiting the Roman monuments of Nimes (Living room of 1836), Holy Thomas d' Aquin and Saint Bonaventure (1853), Agar and Ismaël
  • National museum of the Castle of Pau: Drawing of 1814, Re-establishment of the statue of Henri IV on the Pont-Neuf on May 9th, 1814
  • Museum of the Navy of Rochefort: Christophe Colomb
  • Museum of the Sandelin hotel of Saint-Omer: Portrait of old lady in front of the abbey Saint-Bertin ,
  • Museum of the Art schools of Strasbourg: Family of fishermen .
  • Maritime Museum of Tatihou: the Return of fishing
  • National museum of the castle and Trianons of Versailles: Valentine of Milan requires justice of the assassination of the duke of Orleans (November 1407). Portraits: Anne of Lorraine, countess of Lislebonne (1640-1720), Charles of Bourbon, prince of the Roche-sur-Yon (? - 1565), Charles V, duke of Lorraine (1643-1690), Marie-Louise d' Aspremont, duchess of Lorraine (1652-1692), Renee of Lorraine, duchess of Ognano (? - 1638), Marie of Orleans-Longueville, duchess of Nemours (1625-1707), Claude de Moy, countess of Chaligny (1572-1627), Ferdinand IV, king of Both Siciles (1751-1825), Marguerite de Bourbon, duchess of Nevers (1516-1589)
  • Parish church Saint-Louis, Saint Nicolas's Day with Choisy-the-King (the Valley-of-Marne): Christ in Cross according to Rubens (1841)
  • Parish church Saint Nicolas's Day, Saint-Marc of City-in Avray (Hauts-de-Seine): Marie with the foot of the Cross (1860)
  • Parish church Saint-Barthelemy-and-Saint-Eutrope of Villecomtal (Aveyron): table of furnace bridge Christ in cross: martyrdom with holy Marie-madeleine (1850)
  • Saint-Cyr-Holy-Julitte Parish church of Montjaux (Aveyron): table, the Holy Family with the angels: the Virgin, the Jesus Child, holy Elisabeth and the small saint Jean (1849)
  • Parish church of the Assumption of Beaumont-with-Lomagne (Tarn-et-Garonne): Resurrection of Christ (1843),
; Paris
  • Museum Delacroix: drawings Italian upright of three-quarter , Study of man in Greek costume ; Break into leaf of studies: Man in costume Rebirth a knee with ground and academy of man ; Watercolour: Faust and Marguerite
  • Museum Carnavalet: Portrait of Jean-Georges Farcy (1800-1830), risen of 1830 (1830), Portrait of Eugene Delacroix at 26 years in 1824 (pencil)
  • Hotel Matignon: Maximilien de Béthune, duke of Sully , (1559-1641)
  • Church Saint-Sulpice: the dream of Saint-Joseph (1843)
  • Louvre: Self-portrait of the artist, in the past allotted to Géricault, Charles Quint received with the palate of Louvre by François Ier (oil on fabric, 1843, deposited with the National Assembly), the meeting of Bacchus and ARIANE (copy of the table of Titien of the National Gallery of London), Scene of battle ,
; Out of France

Descent

Four girls of its first marriage with Marie Juhel:
  • Héloïse Suzanne Hake (1820-1874), dessinatrice and illustrator of mode, marries of the painter Auguste Leloir (1809-1892), mother of Maurice Leloir and Alexandre-Louis Leloir, draftsmen
  • Adele-Anaïs Colin (1822-1899), painter and illustrator of mode, marries of the architect-voyer and engraver Gabriel Toudouze, mother of the writer Gustave Toudouze
  • Laure Colin (1827-1878), illustrator of mode, marries of the painter Gustave Christmas
  • Isabelle marries Hippolyte Malibran
A son of its second marriage:
  • Paul-Alfred Colin, painter of marines and landscape (born in Nimes in October 1838, died in Paris in 1916)
A grandson:
  • Alexandre Cuvelier (born in Saint-Omer on September 27th, 1867, dead on August 19th, 1913), painter, wire of Clotilde Vidal-Navatel (girl of the second wife of Alexandre Colin) and of Arthur-Charles Cuvelier, wire of Hippolyte-Joseph.

External bonds

  • Gate Collections of the Ministry for the culture
  • Site of the photographic agency of the NMR
  • Palissy Base of the ministry for the culture: *Base Mona Lisa of the ministry for the culture:

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