Jean-Antoine Constantin (January 1756 - 9 January 1844) was a French painter.
Jean-Antoine Constantin (January 1756 - 9 January 1844) was a French painter.
Born in the vicinity of the Loubière, in Marseille, Jean-Antoine Constantin studied at the Academy of Painting in Marseille under the tutelage of Jean-Joseph Kappeler, David de Marseille, and Jean-Baptiste Giry. [1] Although born and bred in Marseille, he spent his whole professional life as a painter in Aix-en-Provence. [1]
In the aftermath of his graduation, he started work in the pottery industry in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie. [1] He then lived in Rome for six years [2] under the patronage of Perron, an arts enthusiast from Aix. Later, he moved back to Aix to work as a painter there. He mostly did landscape painting, with Digne-les-Bains, Fontaine de Vaucluse, or Marseille as inspirations. [1]
In 1786, he succeeded Claude Arnulphy and became the third principal of the drawing school in Aix, continuing in the post until the French Revolution. In 1807, he moved to Digne to work as a drawing teacher for six years. [1] He returned to Aix in 1813, with the financial support of François Marius Granet, [2] who gave him an allowance of 150 francs. [1] In January 1844, at age 88, he died a poor man.
Jean-Antoine Constantin is seen as one of the forefathers of Provençal painting. [3] François Marius Granet, Auguste de Forbin, Louis Mathurin Clérian, Émile Loubon are some of the later painters to have sought inspiration from his paintings. [1]
Bouches-du-Rhône is a department in Southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the south. Its prefecture and largest city is Marseille; other important cities include Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Martigues and Aubagne.
Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a city and commune in southern France, about 30 km (20 mi) north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the subprefecture of the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The population of Aix-en-Provence is of approximately 143,000. Its inhabitants are called Aixois or, less commonly, Aquisextains.
François Marius Granet was a French painter.
The Diocese of Digne is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected in the 4th century as the Diocese of Digne, the diocese has been known as the Diocese of Digne–Riez–Sisteron since 1922. The diocese comprises the entire department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the Region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The diocese was a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Aix-en-Provence and Arles until 2002 and is now a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Marseille. The Bishop of Digne's cathedra is found in Digne Cathedral at the episcopal see of Digne-les-Bains.
Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste, comte de Forbin was the French painter and antiquary who succeeded Vivant Denon as curator of the Musée du Louvre and the other museums of France.
Le Tholonet is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France. Its inhabitants are called Tholonétiens.
Achille Empéraire (1829–1898) was a French painter.
Émile Charles Joseph Loubon was a French painter, known for his panoramic landscapes of Provence, featuring figures and animals.
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet was a French painter born in Gentilly.
Claude Arnulphy, also spelt Arnulphi, was a French painter, chiefly of portraits, based at Aix-en-Provence in the south of France.
Antoine-George-Prosper Marilhat, usually known as Prosper Marilhat, was a French Orientalist painter. Many of his most successful works were based on the sketches he drew during the time he spent in Egypt in 1831–1832.
Jean Planque (1910–1998) was a Swiss art collector.
The Musée de la Faïence de Marseille was a museum in southern Marseille, France, dedicated to faience, a type of pottery. It opened to the public in June 1995 in Château Pastré at 157, Avenue de Montredon 13008 Marseille. It closed on 31 December 2012 to allow for the transfer of its collections to the new faience museum at Château Borély, the Museum of the Decorative Arts, Fashion and Ceramics, as part of preparations for Marseille becoming the European Capital of Culture in 2013.
The Clérissy faience factories or ateliers Clérissy were the main pottery factories making Moustiers faience, operated by members of the Clérissy family in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in Marseille, France, and later Varages and elsewhere. Family members continued to produce faïence in different locations until 1733.
The Musée Granet is a museum in the quartier Mazarin, Aix-en-Provence, France devoted to painting, sculpture and archeology. In 2011, the museum received 177,598 visitors.
Joseph-Marius Ramus (1805-1888) was a French sculptor.
Michel Serre (1658–1733) was a Catalan-born French painter.
Philippe-Auguste Jeanron was a French painter, curator and writer. Throughout his life he was a passionate republican. His genre pictures typically depicted common people. He opposed the July Monarchy. After the February Revolution of 1848 was made head of National Museums and Director of the Louvre, where he introduced important innovations in the preservation, classification and arrangement of the collections. Later he became director of the museum in Marseilles.
Hippolyte Ferrat (1822–1882) was a French sculptor from Aix-en-Provence. He specialised in busts. He designed public sculptures in Provence as well as busts for private collections and city halls. His work can be found in museums in Europe and the United States.
Louis Mathieu Verdilhan was a French artist known especially for his paintings of the Old Port of Marseille.
[This article has been translated from the French Wikipedia.]
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