Jules Porreau

Jules Porreau is a French engraver of the 19th century, credit towards the Années 1850, author of portraits for illustrations of books.

Henri Béraldi thus painted the character by locating it in his context:

It was a fashion, at many amateurs, about 1850-1875, artificially to illustrate books by furnishing them with the portraits of the characters named in the text. Some bibliophiles sought for this use of good engravings and the tests of state, but they were the exception. The large about army illustrating only one point was worried: to have nevertheless the portrait, good or bad, of the wished character, and it to have cheap.

L' provisioning was made at Vignères, merchant of Estampe S, editor and expert, who, in his long and very honourable career, made more than six hundred public sales. It had funds of several thousands of portraits, to twenty-five and fifty centimes (a franc before the letter). It had had the clever idea to increase this funds of a certain number of characters hitherto new, whom it made engrave with few expenses, on documents besides exacts.

Porreau was the engraver of Vignères.

C' was, - according to the information that on him the engraver Varin gives us, - one of these unhappy artists, who are in misery especially by their fault, and which cannot or do not want to leave there, either idleness, or rather by false idea of independence: badly vêtu, capped of a large characteristic hat which, for some, seems to be the symbol of freedom; asking work, not delivering it within the deadlines and returning the documents communicated for models in a state of inénarrable deterioration. New Dog-Stone , it slept with open air in the beautiful days, and pressed by the hunger, ate raw carrots torn off in the fields. Vignères, taken compassion, made it equip one day with the Beautiful Flower stand, so that it could be presented decently in the editors; a little later Porreau returned déguenillé, telling its sufferings and requiring work.

Jules Porreau is the author of very many portraits, of which a series of heads of revolutionists according to the sketches of Vivant Denon. He is also the author of a Turgot and of a David for French Plutarque .

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