Jules Worms

Jules Worms (16 December 1832 – 25 November 1924) was a French academic painter and illustrator. Born into a family of Parisian shopkeepers, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1849 at the age of seventeen, where he studied under (1810–79). He made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1859. Worms is best known for genre scenes depicting Spanish life, often comical and painted in a highly realistic manner with many details and bright colors.

Career

In the early 1860s, Worms made his first trip to Spain, where he was immediately enchanted with Spanish culture and customs. Worms returned for six extended trips between 1860–61 and 1882, traveling widely and gathering sketches and costumes for studio paintings back in Paris.Sanders, Patricia B. ''The Haggin Collection'', Stockton: The Haggin Museum, 1991, p 162. In 1871 he spent six months in Granada with the Catalan painter Marià Fortuny, whom he had met in Paris.

His paintin
''La romance à la mode''
exhibited at the Salon of 1868, was purchased by the French State. It is now in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay and is displayed at the Luxembourg Palace in Paris.

Worms also created illustrations for books, including ''Les Contes rémois'' by , the '' Fables of La Fontaine'' in 1873, '' Don Quixote'' in 1884, ''Aladdin'', and ''One Thousand and One Nights''.

Worms continued to exhibit his paintings at the annual Paris Salon until the 1890s. His illustrated memoirs of travels in Spain, ''Souvenirs d’Espagne, impressions de voyages et croquis'', was published in 1906. He continued to paint at least up until World War I, and his paintings continued to sell consistently in both France and the United States. Jules Worms died in Paris at the age of 91 on 25 November 1924.

Worms was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1876. He became a member of the Society of French Artists in 1883.

Works in museums

In the United States, his work is held in the permanent collections of the Haggin Museum and the Clark Art Institute; in France, of the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, the Musée Magnin in Dijon, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, and the ; in Spain, of the in Seville; in Austria, of the Dorotheum in Vienna. A work by Worms in the Nob Hill mansion of Leland Stanford was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.Osborne, Carol M. ''Museum Builders in the West: The Stanfords as Collectors and Patrons of Art, 1870-1906''. Stanford University Museum of Art, 1986, p. 18.

Gallery

File:Uniformes de la légion Garibaldi.jpg, ''Uniformes de la légion Garibaldi'', engraving by Jules Worms after Hector Giacomelli, 1859
File:Beinagrindin í Hólakirkju.jpg, Illustration fo
Legends''
by Jón Árnason, 1864
File:La ronda (Jules Worms).jpg, ''La Ronda'', 1876
File:Jules Worms--Departure for the Review--c 1876--Clark.tif, ''Departure for the Review'', c. 1876, Clark Art Institute
File:The Furtive Message, by Jules Worms.jpg, ''The Furtive Message'', after 1877, Haggin Museum
File:Jules Worms--The Red Shawl--undated--Haggin Museum.jpg, ''The Red Shawl'', undated, Haggin Museum
File:Caricatured Head of a Spaniard MET DP808454.jpg, ''Caricatured Head of a Spaniard'', 1880, Haggin Museum
File:Jules Worms--La Fontaine du Taureau a Granada--photogravure Goupil.jpg, ''La Fontaine du Taureau a Granada'', c. 1873–1878, photogravure Goupil
File:Jules Worms--Le compliment--photogravure Goupil--c1873-1878.jpg, ''Le Compliment'', c. 1873–1878, photogravure Goupil
File:Gezicht op de Calle del Sepulcro te Zaragoza met twee figuren La Calle del Sepulcro (Saragosse) (titel op object), RP-P-1913-2163 (cropped).jpg, ''La Calle del Sepulcro (Saragosse)'', 1875-1882
File:Salida de los contrabandistas.jpg, Departure of the Smugglers, 1882
File:Jules Worms--Serenade--c1888.jpg, ''Serenade'', c. 1888
File:Jules Worms--drawing--Album Mariani vol 7--1902.jpg, Drawing (testimonial to vin Mariani) from v. 7, 1902
File:Jules Worms Sortie du maitre.jpg, ''Sortie du maître'', by 1914, Dorotheum, Vienna
File:Jules Worms, Chance Meeting.webp, ''Chance Meeting'', undated, private collection
File:Jules Worms--untitled--(serenade).jpg, Untitled, undated, private collection
File:Jules Worms--Spanish genre scene--before 1924.jpg, Untitled, undated, private collection
File:Tombe Jules Worms, Cimetière du Montparnasse.jpg, Tombstone of Jules Worms, Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris

Publications

*''Souvenirs d'Espagne - impressions de voyages et croquis'' (Memories of Spain - impressions from trips and sketches), illustrated book with 53 engravings and 8 plates after the drawings and paintings by the author, Paris: H. Floury, 1906.

References

External links

Jules Worms
��a brief biography of Worms (in French) and numerous images of his work

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1832 births
1924 deaths
19th-century French painters
Jewish painters
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
20th-century French painters