Constant Dutilleux (5 October 1807,

Douai Douai (, , ,; pcd, Doï; nl, Dowaai; formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord département in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some from Lille and from Arras, Do ...

- 21 October 1865, Paris) was a 19th-century French painter, illustrator and engraver. He was the great-grandfather of the composer

Henri Dutilleux Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of ...

. Dutilleux preferred

landscape painting Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent com ...

s. He was mainly influenced by

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British ...

and

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, is a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his va ...

Works on public display

In 2006, his works toured France as part of an exhibition on ''Constant Dutilleux, and

''. * ''Hêtraie dans la forêt de Fontainebleau'', Palais des Beaux-Arts de

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord ...

* ''Le peintre Désiré Dubois peignant en plein air'', (oil on canvas)

Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras is located in the old Abbey of St. Vaast in Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Collection Paintings The museum's collection includes paintings of the Flemish and Dutch schools including Jehan Belle ...

File:Constant Dutilleux - rue de Crambioux.jpg, ''Vue de la rue de Crambious, près de Fleurbaix'' (private collection) File:Constant Dutilleux - bord de Scarpe.jpg , ''Bord de Scarpe'' (1860), Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Arras File:Constant Dutilleux - Effet de neige.jpg, ''Effects of Snow'' (1865),

Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai The Musée de la Chartreuse is an art museum in a former Carthusian monastery in Douai, France. It is the 'musée des Beaux-Arts' for the city. Building Built by Jacques d'Abancourt in brick and stone in the Renaissance style, on the site of ...

File:PSdutilleux6526.jpg, ''Path in the Forest'', Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Arras

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1807 births 1865 deaths 19th-century engravers French engravers 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French male artists {{France-engraver-stub