Jean Antoine Constantin
Illustration — Self-portrait Jean-Antoine Constantin (January 1756 – 9 January 1844), also known as Constantin d’Aix, was a French painter.
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Jean Antoine Constantin
Anonymous Unknown author · La Peinture en Provence, André Alauzen, éd. Jeanne Laffitte, Marseille, 1987 · Public domain
- Born
- 1756. · Marseille.
- Died
- 1844. · Aix-en-Provence.
- Nationality
- France.
- Teachers
- Jean-Joseph Kapeller.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Self-portrait Jean-Antoine Constantin (January 1756 – 9 January 1844), also known as Constantin d’Aix, was a French painter.
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Jean Antoine Constantin (1756–1844) was French. Jean Antoine Constantin was born in Marseille and died in Aix-en-Provence.
Languages used include French. Works are held at Ackland Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, among others. Honours include Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Biography
Training under Jean-Joseph Kapeller is recorded. Joseph Marc Gibert, Louis Mathurin Clérian and François Marius Granet are recorded as having studied under Jean Antoine Constantin. The recorded working language is French. Work by Jean Antoine Constantin is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, National Gallery, Ackland Art Museum, Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille and Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Born near Loubières, in Marseille, Jean-Antoine Constantin studied at the Academy of Painting in Marseille under the tutelage of Jean-Joseph Kapeller, David de Marseille, and Jean-Baptiste Giry. Although born and raised in Marseille, he spent his whole professional life as a painter in Aix-en-Provence.
Rome, then Aix-en-Provence
Rome, then Aix-en-Provence
In the aftermath of his graduation, Constantin started work in the pottery industry in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie. He then lived in Rome for six years under the patronage of Perron, an arts enthusiast from Aix. Later, he moved back to Aix to work as a painter there. He mostly did landscape painting, with Digne-les-Bains, Fontaine de Vaucluse, or Marseille as inspirations.
Works
Works
• Paintings: • La Fontaine de Vaucluse, (Avignon). • Une petite Sainte-Victoire, (Aix-en-Provence). • Bord de rivière, Marseille. • L’Orage, Marseille. • Monastère, Marseille. • Sepia drawings: • Rade de Marseille, Louvre. • Vue de Moustiers, Louvre. • Feather drawing: • Lancement d’une montgolfière à Aix, 1784, (Marseille). • Ink and wash painting: • Vue de Digne, Digne. • Prise du Couvent de la Sainte-Enfance, Digne. • Vue de la ville d’Aix, Louvre. • Vue de Marseille, Louvre. • Bord de rivière, (Marseille). • Vue de Salon, (Marseille). • Les Ermites, (Marseille). • L’Aumône devant l’église, (Marseille). • Neuf scènes paysannes ou marines d’Italie, (Aix-en-Provence). • Panneau contenant neuf scènes villageoises d’Italie, (Aix-en-Provence). • Watercolor painting: • Paysage et Guerriers, (Marseille). • Lithography: • Vue de Marseille, Paris, Rittner et Goupil (c. 1830), Marseille.
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — An Ancient Tree Fallen Beside a Stream, c. 1814 • Illustration — View of Aix-en-Provence • Illustration — Monastère • Illustration — Paysage • Illustration — Château de la Barben • Illustration — Fontaine de Vaucluse, 1823
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Marseille.
Birth place
Aix-en-Provence.
Death place
Drawing school in Aix
In 1786, he succeeded Claude Arnulphy and became the third principal of the drawing school in Aix, continuing in the post until the French Revolution. In 1807, he moved to Digne to work as a drawing teacher for six years. He returned to Aix in 1813, with the financial support of François Marius Granet, who gave him an allowance of 150 francs. In January 1844, at age 88, he died a poor man.
Influence
• Illustration — Late portrait Constantin is seen as one of the forefathers of Provençal painting. François Marius Granet, Auguste de Forbin, Louis Mathurin Clérian, Émile Loubon are some of the later painters to have sought inspiration from his paintings.
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- 1.La Peinture en Provence, André Alauzen, ed. Jeanne Laffitte, Marseille, 1987, p. 147-8.
- 2.Jean Antoine Constantin, a.k.a. Constantin d’Aix (1756–1844).
- 3.Masters from Aix during Cézanne's lifetime , exposition 2006.
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