Claudius Popelin, also known as Claudius Popelin-Ducarre (2 November 1825 – 17 May 1892) was a French

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

, enameler,

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, and

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Biography

Studying under

François-Édouard Picot François-Édouard Picot (; 10 October 1786 – 15 March 1868) was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects. Life Born in Paris, Picot studied with François-André Vincent and Jacq ...

and

Ary Scheffer Ary Scheffer (10 February 179515 June 1858) was a Dutch-French Romantic painter. He was known mostly for his works based on literature, with paintings based on the works of Dante, Goethe, Lord Byron and Walter Scott, Macmillan, Duncan (2023), ' ...

, Claudius Marcel Popelin was known for his

historical paintings History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek and Roman mythology and Bible ...

, portraits, and enamels. On 15 April 1858, he married Marie Thérèse Anquetil (1836–1869) in the

8th arrondissement of Paris The 8th arrondissement of Paris (''VIIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 Arrondissements of Paris, arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, the arrondissement is colloquially referred to as ''le huitième'' (). The ar ...

. They had one child, Gustave Popelin (1859–1937), an artist who won the

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. Popelin dedicated two works to his son: his translation of ''

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ''Hypnerotomachia Poliphili'' (; ), called in English ''Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream'' or ''The Dream of Poliphilus'', is a book said to be by Francesco Colonna. It is a famous example of an incunable (a work of early printing). The wor ...

'' and his collection of poems. Popelin was the first to translate, annotate, and comment on the famous work originally printed in 1499: ''Le Songe de Poliphile'' was published in French in 1883 by Isidore Liseux.

Publications

Books

* Popelin, Claudius (1866).
L'émail des peintres
' (in French). A. Lévy. *
L'Art de l'émail
', lecture given at the Union centrale des beaux-arts, 6 March 1868. * Popelin, Claudius (1869).
Les Vieux Arts du Feu
' (in French). A. Lemerre.

Poetry

*
Sonnets et eaux-fortes
', a poem and an etching, 1869 *
Un cent de strophes à Pailleron
', 1881. * ''Histoire d'avant-hier'', poem, 1886. *
Un livre de sonnets
', 1888. *
Poésies complètes : Strophes et couplets. Hommes et fourmis. Histoire d'avant-hier
'. Un livre de sonnets, 1889.

Translations

*
Les Troys Libvres de l'art du potier, esquels se traicte non seulement de la practique, mais briefvement de tous les secretz de ceste chouse, du cav
'. ''

Cipriano Piccolpasso Cipriano di Michele Piccolpasso (1524 – 21 November 1579) was a member of an Italian patrician family of Bologna that had been settled since the mid-fifteenth century in Castel Durante, which was an important center for the manufacture of maiol ...

'', 1860. * ''De la Statue et de la Peinture'', treatises by Leon Battista Alberti, translated from Latin to French by Claudius Popelin, 1868. * ''Le Songe de Poliphile, ou Hypnérotomachie'' by Brother Francesco Colonna, literally translated for the first time, with an introduction and notes, by Claudius Popelin, 2 vol., 1883, Prix Langlois from the Académie française in 1884.

Distinctions

* Knight of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

Gallery

File:Claudius Popelin by Gabriel Ferrier.jpg,

Gabriel Ferrier Gabriel-Joseph-Marie-Augustin Ferrier (29 September 1847 in Nîmes – 6 June 1914 in Paris) was a French portrait painter and orientalist. Early life and education His father was a pharmacist. He began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts, ...

, ''Portrait of Claudius Popelin'', 1881,

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, Musée des Arts Décoratifs File:Claudius Popelin peignant.jpg, Gustave Popelin, Claudius Popelin-Ducarre, seated, painting, photograph, Paris,

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) () is a museum in Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche, Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mai ...

. File:Claudius Popelin - Portrait (posthume) du prince Louis-Napoléon.jpg, ''Portrait of Prince

Louis Bonaparte Louis Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846) was a younger brother of Napoleon, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a monarch in his own right from 1806 to 1810, ruling over the Kingdom of Holland (a French c ...

'' (1890), painted enamel in gold cameo on copper, Paris, Musée d'Orsay. File:Claudius popelin, studio di ghirlanda fiorita con uccello fantastico, 1870-80 ca.JPG, ''Study of flowery wreath and fantastic bird, letter paper with a letterhead of a baron's crown?'' (between 1870 and 1880), watercolor, Paris, Musée d'Orsay.

References

Bibliography

* Falize, Lucien (1893).
Claudius Popelin et la renaissance des émaux peints
' (in French). Gazette des Beaux-Arts * Bouchaud, Pierre de (1894).
Claudius Popelin: peintre, émailleur et poète
' (in French). A. Lemerre. * Popelin, Claudius (1875).
Cinq octaves de sonnets
' (in French). A. Lemerre.

External links

"Recherche - Base de données Léonore"
''www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr''.
"CTHS - POPELIN Claudius Marcel dit POPELIN-DUCARRE"
''cths.fr''.
"Claudius POPELIN , Académie française"
''www.academie-francaise.fr''. * Biographie, Deutsche

''www.deutsche-biographie.de'' (in German).
"ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)"
''www.getty.edu''.
"Popelin, Claudius(-Marcel)"
''Grove Art Online''.
"Collections Online , British Museum"
''www.britishmuseum.org''.
"Popelin, Claudius"
''agorha.inha.fr''.
"Claudius Popelin"
''mutualart.com''.
"Claudius Popelin (35919) , Musée d'Orsay"
''www.musee-orsay.fr''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Popelin, Claudius 19th-century French painters French history painters French portrait painters 19th-century French poets Knights of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French translators 1825 births 1892 deaths