George Roux
George Roux (1853–1929) was a French artist and book illustrator. His best-known works today are a large number of illustrations he created for the science-fiction novels of Jules Verne, in the series Les voyages extraordinaires. He was the second-most prolific illustrator of Verne's novels, after Léon Benett, drawing the illustrations for 22 novels in the original editions of Verne's works with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel.
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- 1853
- Died
- 1929
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- France
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- painter · illustrator
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- portrait
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The first of them was L’Épave du Cynthia (The Salvage of the Cynthia, 1885) and the last was L'Étonnante aventure de la mission Barsac (The Barsac Mission, 1919). • Illustration — Illustration by Roux for J. Verne's Master of the World, 1903 He also illustrated André Laurie's Axel Ebersen, the Graduate of Upsala published in instalments in volume 14 (1981–2) of the Boy's Own Paper.
An illustration from Jules Verne's novel "The Castaways of the Flag" (or "Second Fatherland"; 1900) drawn by George Roux.
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1853
George Roux was born on 5 April 1853.
1929
George Roux died on 29 January 1929.
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- 1.Archives de l'Hérault, commune de Ganges, acte de naissance , année 1853 (vue 79/507)
- 2.Site de Desouzy.com
- 3.Catalogue de l'exposition de 1890, liste des prix des années précédentes, texte en ligne
- 4.Archives de Fontenay-sous-Bois, acte de naissance , année 1894 (vue 98/126).
- 5.Nécrologie dans le Figaro du 12 février 1929 - Le monde et la ville (Page 2)
- 6.Archives des Yvelines, commune de Versailles, acte de décès , année 1929 (vue 25/267)
- 7.Olivier Dumas, Roux, l'illustrateur (ou l'illustratrice ? des derniers voyages..., Bulletin de la Société Jules-Verne , trimestre 2006,
- 8.Archives Municipales de Béziers, 2 R 8.
- 9.Bulletin de l'association Les Mermet, n°17, mars 2007.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Dictionnaire des illustrateurs, 1800-1814, Neuchâtel, Ides et Calendes, 1989
- Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, Gründ, 1999
- George Roux (1853—1929) : peintre et illustrateur, Béziers, musée des beaux-arts de Béziers, 2012, 50 p.
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