Marcellin Desboutin

Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin ( born August 26, 1823 in Cérilly, † February 18, 1902 in Nice ) was a French painter, printmaker and writer. After his training as a painter, he lived for some years in Italy, where he wrote poetry and a play. After his return to France he was different painters model and put his own paintings and graphic works successfully in the Salon de Paris. The Impressionists related artists created mostly etchings, including a variety of portraits, which often befriended writers and painters show with him.

Life

Marcellin Desboutin came in 1823 in Cerilly in the Auvergne, the son of Barthélémy Desboutin and his wife Anne -Sophie Dalie, born Farges de Rochefort, to the world. While the father of the middle class came, the mother came from a family aristrokratischen, which also included the writer and politician Henri Rochefort.

Although Desboutin showed a talent for drawing at an early age, he studied after his school education at the Collège Stanislas and at the Collège Louis -le- Grand Jura, but broke off his studies and took the profession of the artist. From 1845, he attended the École des Beaux -Arts and at first was taught the sculptor Louis -Jules eTeX before joining in 1847 the studio of the painter Thomas Couture, where he remained until 1848.

After a major inheritance traveled Desboutin 1849 Belgium, the Netherlands and England. The early 1850s, he returned to France and settled in Issoire. During this time he wrote several song texts, which were published in 1852 as chanson Chansons et nice in Paris. In 1854 he married his first wife, the widow of his lodger.

From 1857 lived Desboutin in Italy, where he acquired in Bellosguardo, a suburb of Florence, the Villa dell'Ombrellino. Here he wrote poems and dramas, presented etchings and engravings ago and built an art collection on. About the composition of his art collection today there are no more documents, but it is known that he was interested in art of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as for Spanish painting. After the death of his first wife, he married the daughter of an Italian peasant, with whom he had nine children. In Florence, the painter Giuseppe de Nittis one of his friends.

His literary works include the translation of Don Juan by Lord Byron, but remained unpublished. Inspired by the life of Maurice of Saxony, he co-wrote with Jules Amigues the drama in five acts Maurice de Saxe. The premiere of the play took place in the Paris Théâtre -Français on 2 June 1870. In the 1860s Desboutin speculated in real estate after Florence was declared the capital of Italy. After the relocation of the capital from Florence to Rome Desbouin early 1870s lost much of its assets.

In August 1872 he returned to Paris and earned a living as a graphic artist for himself and his family. Desboutin wrong in Montmartre, the artist places Café Guerbois and Café de la New Athens and became friends with artists such as Édouard Manet, Pierre- Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. About Manet learned Desboutin the writer Émile Zola know. Desboutin also stood in 1875 for Manet's painting, the artist model. Degas portrayed Desboutin 1876 together with the actress Ellen Andrée in a double portrait The absinthe. In his own works, he turned mainly to the portrait art. Yet clearly under the influence of Gustave Courbet was born in 1874, the painting Le Joueur de violon ( Musée Anne -de- Beaujeu; Moulin ). In the Salon de Paris from 1875, he succeeded, in which he portrayed his friends Émile Zola, Edmond de Goncourt and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes with several drypoint etchings. More images created later by writers like Jules Claretie, Alphonse Daudet, Théodore de Banville, Henri Rochefort, Edmond Duranty, Eugène Labiche and Joséphin Péladan by musicians such as Erik Satie or by painters such as Jean Jacques Henner, Rodolphe Salis and Norbert Goeneutte.

Marcellin Desboutin: Portrait of Pierre- Auguste Renoir 1877

Marcellin Desboutin: Portrait of Henri Rochefort 1880

Marcellin Desboutin: Portrait of Jean -Baptiste- Camille Corot about 1892

In 1876 he exhibited in the second group exhibition of the Impressionists and showed there seven paintings and six etchings. In the Salon de Paris, he had in 1879 with the etching Mon portrait success and received a medal 3rd class. There was an honorable mention in the Salon de Paris in 1883 for the painting Portrait de femme.

Early 1880s drew Desboutin first to Nice, where he lived for several years and worked. In 1886, he created five drypoint etchings after paintings by Honoré Fragonard belonging to its main graphic works. He returned to Paris in 1887 and exhibited at the Paris World Fair in 1889, where he received a silver medal. Desboutin 1890 belonged to the founders of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, in their exhibitions he participated annually from then on. In 1895 he was appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honour. In 1896 he moved again to Nice and lived here until his death in 1902. A last major exhibition in his lifetime was the participation in the Paris World Exhibition in 1900, seen at the three of his paintings.

Paintings in public collections (selection)

• Portrait de Joséphin Péladan, 1891, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers
• La Mère de l'artiste, Musee Magnin, Dijon
• Self-portrait, Chateau de Versailles, Versailles
• Portrait of Edgar Degas, 1875, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles
• Portrait of Eugène Labiche, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles
• L' Italians, Musée de l' Oise Departmental, Beauvais
• Portrait of Madame Cornereau, 1876, Musée d' Orsay, Paris
• Self-Portrait, 1895, Musée d'art et d' archéologie des Sciences naturelles, Troyes
• Selpbstporträt with whistle (L' homme à pipe), 1874, Musée d' Orsay, Paris
• Portrait du fils de l'artiste, enfant, Musee Magnin, Dijon

Publications

• Marcelin Desboutin: Chansons et chanson nice. Plon, Paris, 1852.
• Jules Amigues and Marcelin Desboutin: Maurice de Saxe ( drama in five acts ). Lachaud, Paris 1870.