Jean Morin
Jean Morin (c.1595 or 1605 – 1650) was a French baroque painter, printmaker, painter, etcher, engraver and publisher. He is mainly remembered as a printmaker, whose innovation in combining engraving with etching on the same plate became extremely common. • Illustration — Jean Morin in 1647
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Jean Morin

Jean Morin · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland · CC0
- Born
- Jean Morin was born, sources differ on the date (about 1605, in the 16th century and in 1600). · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter, etcher, engraver and artist.
- Fields
- portrait.
- Teachers
- Philippe de Champaigne.
- Languages
- French.
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Life
Life
Training under Philippe de Champaigne is recorded. Nicolas de Plattemontagne is recorded as having studied under Jean Morin. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Jean Morin is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Vanderbilt Museum of Art.
Morin was born and died in Paris. 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. 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 and became a founding member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Their son (and therefore nephew of Jean Morin) was the painter Nicolas de Plattemontagne who studied under Morin and Philippe de Champaigne. • Illustration — Memento Mori Van Plattenberg and Morin worked together on various publications such as a series of landscapes and marine scenes. Morin likely never married.
Work
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
Portraits after Philippe de Champaigne
• Illustration — Louis XIII • Illustration — Anne d'Autriche • Illustration — Cardinal Richelieu • Illustration — Jacques Lemercier • Illustration — Cardinal Mazarin • Illustration — François Potier • Illustration — Arnaud d'Andilly • Illustration — Rene de Longueil • Illustration — Henri de Lorraine • Illustration — Theophile Brachet de la Milletiere • Illustration — Pierre Bartier, Bishop of Montauban • Illustration — Antoine Vitre

Jean Baptiste de Vignerod, c. 1640–50, by Jean Morin
Jean Morin · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Mercier, an architect. Drawing, c. 1793, after J. Morin., c. 1793, by Jean Morin
Jean Morin · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
Life and career
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Life and career
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1600
Jean Morin was born on 1 January 1600.
1650
Jean Morin died on 1 January 1650.
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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