Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin

Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin studied at Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse. Training under Jules Garipuy and Jean-Paul Laurens is recorded. Camille Berlin and Henriette Brossin de Polanska are recorded as having studied under Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Georges Seurat is recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris, Italy and Labastide-du-Vert. Works named in the authority record are Beauty, La Famille and La fenaison. Work by Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, Auckland Art Gallery, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and National Gallery of Canada. Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Henri Martin • Birth Name — Henri Jean Guillaume Martin • Born — 5 August 1860 • Birthplace — Toulouse, France • Died — 12 November 1943 • Place of death — Labastide-du-Vert, France • Occupation — Painter • Spouse — Marie-Charlotte Barbaroux • Movement — Post-Impressionism

Born at 127 Grande-Rue Saint-Michel in Toulouse to a French cabinet maker and a mother of Italian descent, Martin successfully persuaded his father to permit him to become an artist. He began his career in 1877 at the Toulouse School of the Fine Arts, where he was under the tutelage of Jules Garipuy; he was also a pupil of Henry-Eugène Delacroix. During his time at the School of Fine Arts, he met Marie-Charlotte Barbaroux, whom he married in 1881. In 1879, Martin relocated to Paris and with the help of a municipal scholarship, was able to study in Jean-Paul Laurens's studio. Four years later, he received his first medal at the Paris Salon, where he would hold his first exhibition three years later in 1886.

• Illustration — Salle de l'Assemblée générale, Conseil d'État, Paris, with paintings by Martin on the walls The year after he won his first medal, Martin was awarded a scholarship for a tour in Italy, where he studied the work of veterans such as Giotto and Masaccio alongside Edmond Aman-Jean and Ernest Laurent. His 1889 canvas submission to the Salon earned him the gold medal for work that has been described as Pointillist. In 1896 he was made a knight of the Legion of Honour, before being promoted to the rank of officer in 1905 and commander in 1914. At the 1900 World Fair, he was awarded the Grand Prize for his work. During this period, he became friends with Auguste Rodin. Although Martin's work as a Neo-Impressionist is not considered groundbreaking, it was rather well-received; it has been associated with world-class symbolist painter Puvis de Chavannes. After joining the Société nouvelle de peintres et de sculpteurs in Paris in 1899, he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts (painting section) in 1917.

Due to his introverted temperament, Martin decided to move away from Paris. After a decade of searching for an ideal home, Martin bought the Domaine de Marquayrol, overlooking the village of Labastide-du-Vert, near Cahors. He performed what is considered by some his best work in the new tranquil environment. He died there in 1943. In a 2020 portrait by Le Monde, Raphaëlle Rérolle writes about Martin painting at Labastide-du-Vert: "The elders of this Lot village say that when [the children] left class, [they] were not allowed to stop near him. Better to go straight ahead, not forgetting to greet politely, otherwise the artist would complain to the schoolmistress".[5] Two of his four sons became painters: Claude-René Martin and Jacques Martin-Ferrières. Henri Martin was also a teacher who had among his pupils American painter Nellie Ellen Shepherd.[6] The Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin in Cahors, which was named after him, exposes some of his work.[7] left

• Illustration — Le Poète (The Poet), 1881, Musée des Augustins • Illustration — Autoportrait en saint Jean-Baptiste (Self-portrait in Saint John the Baptist), 1883, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne • Illustration — Paolo Malatesta et Francesca da Rimini aux enfers (Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini in hell), 1883, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne • Illustration — La Fête de la Fédération au Champ de Mars le 14 juillet 1790 (The Fête de la Fédération at Champ de Mars on 14 July 1790), 1889, Musée des Augustins • Illustration — L'Homme entre le Vice et la Vertu (Man Between Vice and Virtue), 1892, Musée des Augustins • Illustration — Portrait de Madame Sans (Portrait of Madam Sans), 1895, Musée des Augustins • Illustration — Portrait d'Albert Sarraut (Portrait of Albert Sarraut), c. 1898, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne • Illustration — Beauté (Beauty), 1900, Musée des Augustins • Illustration — Dans le jardin (In the garden), c. 1900, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille • Illustration — L'été ou les faucheurs (Summer or mowers), 1903, Capitole de Toulouse • Illustration — Portrait de Jean Jaurès (Portrait of Jean Jaurès), 1905, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec • Illustration — Les bords de la Garonne, les promeneurs ou les rêveurs (The banks of the Garonne, walkers or dreamers), 1906, Capitole de Toulouse • Illustration — Étude pour les bords de la Garonne (Study for the banks of the Garonne), c. 1906, Musée des Augustins • Illustration — Portrait de l'artiste (Self-portrait), c. 1912, Musée d'Orsay • Illustration — Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956), compositeur (Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956), composer), c. 1932, Musée Carnavalet

Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin was recorded at birth as Henri Jean Guillaume Martin. The authorities additionally record the headings Henri-Jean-Guillaume Martin, Henri Jean Guillaume Martin, h. martin, h. de martin and martin h.

Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin is recorded with the occupation painter. Classed in the genre portrait. Martin worked at Labastide-du-Vert. Recorded as having studied at Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse.