Jean-Antoine Constantin (January 1756 - 9 January 1844) was a French painter.

Biography

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. Although born and bred in Marseille, he spent his whole professional life as a painter in Aix-en-Provence.''La Peinture en Provence'', André Alauzen, ed. Jeanne Laffitte, Marseille, 1987, p. 147-8.

Rome, then Aix-en-Provence

In the aftermath of his graduation, he started work in the pottery industry in

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. He then lived in

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for six yearsJean Antoine Constantin, a.k.a. Constantin d’Aix (1756-1844)
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

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, Fontaine de Vaucluse, or Marseille as inspirations.

Drawing school in Aix

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. He returned to Aix in 1813, with the financial support of François Marius Granet, who gave him an allowance of 150 francs. In January 1844, at age 88, he died a poor man.

Influence

Jean-Antoine Constantin is seen as one of the forefathers of Provençal painting.Masters from Aix during Cézanne's lifetime
, exposition 2006. François Marius Granet, Auguste de Forbin, Louis Mathurin Clérian, Émile Loubon are some of the later painters to have sought inspiration from his paintings.

Works

*Paintings: **''La Fontaine de Vaucluse'', (

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). **''Une petite Sainte-Victoire'', (

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, city and Communes of France, commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the Subprefectures in France, s ...

). **''Bord de rivière'',

Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...

. **''L’Orage'',

. **''Monastère'',

. * Sepia drawings: **''Rade de Marseille'',

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. **''Vue de Moustiers'', Louvre. *Feather drawing: **''Lancement d’une montgolfière à Aix'', 1784, (Marseille). *

Ink and wash painting Ink wash painting ( zh, t=水墨畫, s=水墨画, p=shuǐmòhuà) is a type of Chinese ink brush painting which uses washes of black ink, such as that used in East Asian calligraphy, in different concentrations. It emerged during the Tang dynas ...

: **''Vue de Digne'', Digne. **''Prise du Couvent de la Sainte-Enfance'', Digne. **''Vue de la ville d’Aix'', Louvre. **''Vue de Marseille'', Louvre. **''Bord de rivière'', (Marseille). **''Vue de Salon'', (Marseille). **''Les Ermites'', (Marseille). **''L’Aumône devant l’église'', (Marseille). **''Neuf scènes paysannes ou marines d’Italie'', (Aix-en-Provence). **''Panneau contenant neuf scènes villageoises d’Italie'', (Aix-en-Provence). *

Watercolor painting Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the S ...

: **''Paysage et Guerriers'', (Marseille). *

Lithography Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the miscibility, immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by ...

: **''Vue de Marseille'', ''Paris, Rittner et Goupil'' (c. 1830), Marseille.

References

his article has been translated from the French Wikipedia.

External links

Drawing

Fontaine-de-Vaucluse
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