Jean-Antoine Constantin

Jean -Antoine Constantin ( born January 21, 1756 in Bonneveine in Marseille, † January 9, 1844 in Aix -en- Provence) was a French landscape painter and draftsman.

Life

In Marseille Constantin went from 1767 initially apprenticed to the faience factory of Joseph Gaspard Robert. From 1771 he attended the Art Academy ( Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture ), where he received artistic training at Jean -Joseph Kappeler, Joseph Antoine David and Jean -Baptiste Giry.

After a first independent activity in Aix -en- Provence in 1777, he moved over to Rome, where he remained a resident for six years. There he produced under the influence of Salomon van Ruysdael and Karel Dujardin to nature -oriented landscapes and in 1780 numerous studies of nature to. In 1783 he returned for a given disease prematurely back to Aix and was appointed in 1786 as director of the art school. After the closure of the school in the wake of the French Revolution and due to ongoing financial difficulties in 1798, he took a job as a teacher of drawing in Digne. After nine years, he returned to Aix and co-founded there in 1798 by Société des Amis des Sciences, des Lettres de l'Agriculture et des Arts. He became an honorary member of the newly founded art school ( Ecole gratuite de dessin communale ), where he worked as an assistant professor from 1813 to 1830. In 1817 he was given at the Paris Exhibition, where he still exhibited in the following years several times, a gold medal for a Provencal landscape titled Cascade de silane. During the Restoration period he was supported by his former pupils Count Auguste de Forbin and François -Marius Granet and financial support.

Work

Constantin painted mainly landscapes in oil and watercolor. He pleaded for the early plein-air painting and had an outstanding talent as a draftsman. He dominated the ink and Röteltechnik and sat this one for the analytical representation of mineral and vegetal landscape structures of konstrastreichem Mediterranean lighting and chiaroscuro effects of foliage. Occasionally, he also drew historic landscapes and landscapes in the troubadour style. A respected teacher, he exercised influence on the Provencal painting in the first half of the 19th century.

About 1200 of his drawings are now in the Musée Granet ( Aix -en- Provence).

Awards

  • Honorary Member of the drawing school of Aix
  • 1817 Gold Medal at the Paris Exhibition
  • 1833 Chevalier of the Legion of Honor

Works (selection)

  • Aix -en- Provence, Musée Granet
  • Avignon, Musée Calvet
  • Digne, Musée Magnin
  • Fontainebleau, Château
  • Marseille, Musée des Beaux -Arts, Palais Longchamps
  • Paris, Musée d' Orsay
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