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Jean-Charles Cazin (25 May 1840 – 17 March 1901) was a French landscapist, museum curator and ceramicist.
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A Harmony of Color (Rehs Galleries, Inc. biography and images)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cazin, Jean Charles 1840 births 1901 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters Tonalism 19th-century French male artists
Jean-Charles Cazin (25 May 1840 – 17 March 1901) was a French landscapist, museum curator and ceramicist.
Biography
The son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin (1788–1864), he was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais. After studying in France, he went to England, where he was strongly influenced by thepre-Raphaelite movement
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, Jame ...
. His chief earlier pictures have a religious interest, shown in such examples as ''The Flight into Egypt'' (1877), or ''Hagar and Ishmael'' (1880, Luxembourg); and afterwards his combination of luminous landscape with figure-subjects (''Souvenir de fête'', 1881; ''Journée faite'', 1888) gave him a wide repute, and made him the leader of a new school of idealistic subject-painting in France.
In 1890, Theodore Child discussed a few of his paintings (including a series of five paintings depicting the story of Judith and Holofernes) in '' Harper's Magazine''. He painted a scene from ''The Odyssey
The ''Odyssey'' (; grc, Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia, ) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Iliad'', th ...
'', ''Ulysses after the Shipwreck''.
He was made an officer of the Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
in 1889. His charming and poetical treatment of landscape is the feature in his tonalism
Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist. Between 1880 and 1915, dark, neutral hues such as gray, brown or blue, often domina ...
painting which in later years has given them an increasing value among connoisseurs. His wife, Marie Cazin (1844–1924), who was his pupil and exhibited her first picture at the Salon in 1876, the same year in which Cazin himself made his debut there, was also a well-known artist and sculptor.
In 1885–86 he posed for the figure of Eustache de Saint-Pierre in the bronze group ''The Burghers of Calais
''The Burghers of Calais'' (french: Les Bourgeois de Calais) is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in twelve original castings and numerous copies. It commemorates an event during the Hundred Years' War, when Calais, a French port on the English Cha ...
'' by his friend, Auguste Rodin./ref>
See also
*Bruce Crane
Robert Bruce Crane (1857 – October 30, 1937) was an American painter. He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s. His most active period, though, came after 1920, when for more than a decade he did oil sketches of woods, meadows, ...
Bibliography
• Yann GOBERT-SERGENT, ''Jean-Charles Cazin (1841-1901), maître intimiste des dunes et des ciels boulonnais'', Cercle Historique Portelois, juin 2018. • Yann GOBERT-SERGENT, ''Promenade Intimiste dans les Dunes du Boulonnais – Jean-Charles Cazin (1841-1901)'', Cahiers du Patrimoine Boulonnais, n° 78, décembre 2018, pp. 26–32.References
*External links
* *A Harmony of Color (Rehs Galleries, Inc. biography and images)
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