Amédée Varin

Pierre Amédée Varin , born with Châlons-sur-Marne the September 21st 1818 and died in the Crouttes-on-Marne the October 25th 1883, is a engraver French, member of a long line of engravers.

Biography

He goes very young person to Paris, where he attends the workshops of engraving of Charles Geoffroy and Emile Rouargue in the street of the Medical school. He starts his career by engraving drawings of mode and religious images. After having prepared for Grandville engravings of the animated Flowers , it illustrates for Eugene Nus and Antoine Méray the Drôleries vegetable, or the Empire of the vegetables and the Butterflies, metamorphoses terrestrial of the people of the air . Its first important boards are the Meal stopped , according to Edouard Girardet, and two studies of horses entitled Paix and Guerre , according to Alfred Dedreux.

Amédée, written Henri Béraldi, consequently became the appointed engraver of the Maison Goupil for the reproductions of tables in vogues, skilfully carried out in collaboration with his/her brother Eugene, by a mixture of all the processes. “One did not know which name to give to this kind which adopted all the kinds: Etching, black Manner, Aquatinte, mechanics! ” (with admiration) the engraver Portier exclaimed; but it is an error there, one perfectly found a name to him and one called it “the Varin kind”.

Vegetable drôleries

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