Jean-Marie Jacomin (1789,

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

- 6 May 1858, Lyon) was a French painter.

Life

The son of Jean Antoine Jacomin and Marie Hélène Ravier, he studied at the drawing school in Lyon before being taught by

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in the

École des Beaux-arts de Lyon École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

from 1807 to 1813. He painted military subjects, genre paintings, portraits and interiors and also produced engravings and lithographs, such as ''Portrait of the artist'', ''Eight heads of artists from Lyon'' and ''The Good Samaritan''. His works include ''A sculptor's studio and the interior of a cloister'' (Paris, 1819), ''Wounded soldier telling war stories'' (Paris, 1822), ''Leaving for hospital'' (Paris, 1824), ''Young woman surprised by an escaping bird'' (Lyon, 1827). His works are held in museums and galleries in Avignon, Lons-le-Saunier and Lyon (MBA) among others. In Lyon he exhibited portraits of abbé

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, Révoil and the painters Thiénat,

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and

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, along with his own self-portrait. He married the painter Françoise Riondellet (1803-1853).

Bibliography

*Exhibition catalogue for ''Les années romantiques, la peinture française de 1815 à 1850'', musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes 1995-1996 et Galeries nationales du Grand-Palais Paris 1996. {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacomin, Jean-Marie Artists from Lyon 1789 births 1858 deaths