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Jean Morin (c.1595 or 1605 – 1650) was a French
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Morin was born and died in Winter landscape with figures skating on a frozen body of water in a roundel composition; a church and trees in the foreground; a bridge, churches, and windmills beyond
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Jean Morin (c.1595 or 1605 – 1650) was a French baroque
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painter, printmaker
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, painter
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, etcher
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...
, engraver and publisher.Jean Morinat the
Netherlands Institute for Art History
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He is mainly remembered as a printmaker, whose innovation in combining engraving with etching on the same plate became extremely common.
Life
Morin was born and died in Paris
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. His father Étienne Morin was a master painter who died young (circa 1612–1615). He was married to Marie Oignet (or Houegnet, Vanier, Wanier etc.) who was very likely Flemish
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. Jean had two sisters: Marie, who never married (1611–1703) and Catherine (near 1610–1672), who in 1631 married the Flemish painter and engraver Matthieu van Plattenberg, called Plattemontagne in France. Van Plattenberg was originally from Antwerp
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and became a founding member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
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. Their son (and therefore nephew of Jean Morin) was the painter Nicolas de Plattemontagne who studied under Morin and Philippe de Champaigne
Philippe de Champaigne (; 26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Brabançon-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school. He was a founding member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, the premier art ...
.Jean A. Mazel, ''Jean Morin. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre gravé de Jean Morin (env. 1605–1650)'', Paris, éditions de la marquise, 2004
Van Plattenberg and Morin worked together on various publications such as a series of landscapes and marine scenes.at the
Metropolitan Museum
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Morin likely never married.
Work
His graphic work consists of 118 plates, which are undated and the chronology of which is unknown. Six plates do not have his signature. The works include: * 50 portraits * 34 devotional subjects * 20 landscapes * 11 book illustrations * 3 genre scenes. Many of these works were made after paintings of leading artists of the time.Portraits after Philippe de Champaigne
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...
File:Anne d'Autriche, reine de France, en habit de deuil MET DP819815.jpg, Anne d'Autriche
File:Cardinal de Richelieu MET DP826961.jpg, Cardinal Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman and statesman. He was also known as ''l'Éminence rouge'', or "the Red Eminence", a term derived from the ...
File:Jacques Le Mercier, architecte du roi MET DP826967.jpg, Jacques Lemercier
Jacques Lemercier (c. 1585 in Pontoise – 13 January 1654 in Paris) was a French architect and engineer, one of the influential trio that included Louis Le Vau and François Mansart who formed the classicizing French Baroque manner, drawing ...
File:Cardinal Mazarin, ministre d'Anne d'Autriche et de Louis XIV MET DP819850.jpg, Cardinal Mazarin
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File:Francois Potier, marquis de Gesvres, marechal de camp MET DP819831.jpg, François Potier
File:Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, conseiller du roi MET DP819817.jpg, Arnaud d'Andilly
File:Rene de Longueil, futur marquis de Maisons MET DP826964.jpg, Rene de Longueil
File:Henri de Lorraine, comte d'Harcourt MET DP819827.jpg, Henri de Lorraine
File:Theophile Brachet de la Milletiere, conseiller du roi MET DP819818.jpg, Theophile Brachet de la Milletiere
File:Pierre Bartier, eveque de Montauban MET DP819823.jpg, Pierre Bartier, Bishop of Montauban
File:Antoine Vitre, typrographe du roi MET DP819875.jpg, Antoine Vitre
References
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