Alexandre-Marie Colin

Alexandre-Marie Colin studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Anne-Louis Girodet is recorded. Adolphe Perrot and Héloïse Colin are recorded as having studied under Alexandre-Marie Colin. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Works named in the authority record are Valentine de Milan implore la justice du roi Charles VI pour l'assassinat du duc d'Orléans by Alexandre Colin. Work by Alexandre-Marie Colin is recorded in the collections of New Orleans Museum of Art, Musée Carnavalet, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Musée de l'Histoire de France and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

Colin was born in Paris in 1798. He was a pupil of Girodet and close friend of Eugène Delacroix, Achille Devéria, and others. He and Delacroix shared a studio during the 1820s and even lithographed each other's works. His religious and historical paintings are characterised by a style based on a careful study of the old masters, while his genre pieces are vigorous and lifelike. Among the latter may be noticed his French Fish-Market (1832) in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and his Gipsies Resting. Among the former may be named Christopher Columbus, Flight into Egypt, and Assumption of the Virgin. He also illustrated scenes for literary works, such as Shakespeare's Othello and Macbeth. Colin had four children with two wives: Anaïs, Héloïse, Laure, and Paul, all of whom followed in his footsteps as painters. He gradually modified his style during his long career, making it acceptable to salon juries who rejected several early works from the 1820s because of the very painterly qualities we admire today. He died in 1875. • Illustration — Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington, now in the Ashmolean Museum • Illustration — Othello and Desdemona, 1829 • Illustration — Portrait of Théodore Géricault, 1816

The authorities additionally record the headings Alexandre Marie Colin, Alexander Marie Colin, Alexandre Colin and A. His recorded language was French. He was the child of Pierre Marie Hubert Colin and Marie Colin. He married Marie-Josèphe Juhel and Sophie Navatel. 4 children are recorded: Paul-Alfred Colin, Héloïse Colin, Adele-Anais Toudouze and Laure Colin. Other recorded relations include Louis Vidal and Maurice Leloir.