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François Aimé Louis Dumoulin (10 August 1753 in
In 1810, Dumoulin published a collection of 150 engravings themed on the journey of Robinson Crusoe, which is considered to be a precursor to modern comics.
Vevey
Vevey (; frp, Vevê; german: label=former German, Vivis) is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne. The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used.
It was the seat of the district of ...
– 16 February 1834 in Vevey) was a Swiss painter and engraver.
Biography
Although he received some education in technical drawing, Dumoulin was initially intended for a commercial career. In 1772, he sailed toEngland
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and to America
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the next year. Arriving in Grenada
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, he made business while drawing plans and views for the governor.
From 1776 to 1782, Dumoulin was a witness to the American War of Independence
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, drawing several naval battles between the French Navy and the British Royal Navy.
Returned to Vevey in 1783, he turned his sketches of the battles into oil paintings and watercolours, earning his life diving drawing lessons.
Between 1795 and 1797, Dumoulin was in Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
, where he took lessons in anatomy, copied ancient paintings in the Louvre, attended the Academy and the School of naval constructions. Two of his paintings of naval battles were exposed at the 1796 Salon.
Back to Vevey in 1797, he opened a class in technical drawing.
In 1810, Dumoulin published a collection of 150 engravings themed on the journey of Robinson Crusoe, which is considered to be a precursor to modern comics.
Sources and references
Bibliography
* Carl Brun, ''Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon'', Frauenfeld, 1905–1917, p. 397. * Paul Morand, ''Monsieur Dumoulin à l’Isle de la Grenade'', Paudex, 1976 iographie fictive et littéraire avec des reproductions en couleur des œuvres du Musée historique de Vevey * Françoise Bonnet Borel, «Dumoulin, peintre veveysan», dans ''Vibiscum'', 2, 1991, p. 59-97. * Annie Renonciat, « Le Robinson de Dumoulin : un roman en 150 estampes (ca 1810) », dans ''9e Art, Les Cahiers du musée de la bande dessinée'', Angoulême, n° 8, janvier 2003, p. 10-19. * Thierry Smolderen, « Ceci n’est pas une bulle ! - Structures énonciatives du phylactère », 2006Notes and references
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