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Antoine Paul Gustave Dumoulin (18 September 1827, Paris – 5 July 1859, Paris) was a French painter and caricaturist.
He was the son of Alexandre-Hippolyte Dumoulin, an
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@ Gallica) * John Grand-Carteret, ''Les Mœurs et la caricature en France'', Paris, Librairie illustrée, 1888,
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@ Internet Archive). * ''Les Derniers bohêmes : Henri Murger et son temps'', Paris, librairie Sartorius, 1874, pgs.36 and 261
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@ Gallica). * François Solo and Catherine Saint-Martin, ''Plus de 5000 dessinateurs de presse & 600 supports en France de Daumier à l'an 2000'', Aedis, 2004, pg.257
"Dumoulin, Gustave Paul Antoine"
@ the Database of Salon Artists (1827–1850) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dumoulin, Paul 1827 births 1859 deaths French painters French caricaturists Artists from Paris Suicides by asphyxiation
Biography
He was the son of Alexandre-Hippolyte Dumoulin, an accountant
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, and his wife, Marie-Virginie née Taisand.
As a student of Hippolyte Lazerges, he displayed his early paintings at the Salon
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. Denied a place there in 1846, he benefitted from the absence of a selection jury in 1848, which was suspended due to the Revolution.
He then presented three works at that Salon: ''Still-life'', ''Night Effect'' and ''Souvenir of Italy''. In
1850–1851, he exhibited ''A Market'' and a ''Portrait of M. P. D...''. Shortly before his death, he exhibited a tableau called ''A Suburb of Lyon, During the ''.
He was equally, if not better known as a caricaturist; providing numerous illustrations for ', a weekly satirical journal. He designed their logo in 1858. His fellow staff members included Étienne Carjat, Paul Hadol and Alfred Grévin. One of his caricatures, of the sculptor Jean-Pierre Dantan
Jean-Pierre Dantan (28 December 1800, in Paris – 6 September 1869, in Baden-Baden), known as Dantan the Younger, was a French portrait sculptor. His subjects include many famous figures from the realms of politics (for example, Talleyrand ...
, includes a caricature of himself, as a statuette.
During that same time, he also worked for the photographer Pierre Petit who, together with Antoine Trinquart (1814–1871), had recently opened a studio called "La Photographie des Deux Mondes".
Overwhelmed by serious financial and family problems, he decided to end his life. To do so, he bought some coal and asphyxiated himself, at home, with smoke from his stove. He could not be revived and died the next morning. Two days later, he was buried at Montmartre Cemetery.Archives de Paris, cimetières parisiens, registres journaliers des inhumations, cimetière de Montmartre, 1859, #3146Online
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References
Further reading
*Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie
Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie (6 December 1821, Chartres – 6 February 1871, Saint-Malo) was a French art historian.
Life
Émile was born into a bourgeois family in Chartres. He was the son of François Jean Baptiste Bellier de la Cha ...
and Louis Auvray
Louis Auvray (; 7 April 1810, in Valenciennes27 April 1890, in Paris) was a French sculptor and art critic. He was the pupil of David d'Angers and was the brother of Félix Auvray, a painter. He continued the ''Dictionnaire Général des Artistes ...
: ''Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours : architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes'', Renouard, 1882 pg.482Online
@ Gallica) * John Grand-Carteret, ''Les Mœurs et la caricature en France'', Paris, Librairie illustrée, 1888,
Online
@ Internet Archive). * ''Les Derniers bohêmes : Henri Murger et son temps'', Paris, librairie Sartorius, 1874, pgs.36 and 261
Online
@ Gallica). * François Solo and Catherine Saint-Martin, ''Plus de 5000 dessinateurs de presse & 600 supports en France de Daumier à l'an 2000'', Aedis, 2004, pg.257
External links
"Dumoulin, Gustave Paul Antoine"
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