Jules-Claude Ziegler
Illustration — Jules-Claude Ziegler by Nadar Jules-Claude Ziegler (1804-1856) was a French painter, ceramicist and photographer of the French school. Ziegler was born in 1804 in Langres, Haute-Marne. He was appointed knight of the Légion d'Honneur in 1825.
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Jules-Claude Ziegler

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- Born
- 1804. · Langres.
- Died
- Jules-Claude Ziegler died, sources differ on the date (on 22 December 1856 and on 25 December 1856). · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Fields
- portrait.
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris.
- Teachers
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and François Joseph Heim.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Jules-Claude Ziegler by Nadar Jules-Claude Ziegler (1804-1856) was a French painter, ceramicist and photographer of the French school. Ziegler was born in 1804 in Langres, Haute-Marne. He was appointed knight of the Légion d'Honneur in 1825.
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He was the pupil of Dominique Ingres and began to participate exhibitions at the Salon in 1832. The half-dome above the altar in the Église de la Madeleine is frescoed by Jules-Claude Ziegler. • Illustration — La République (1848), musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille • Illustration — Judith aux portes de Béthulie
Jules-Claude Ziegler studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and François Joseph Heim is recorded. Éléonore Escallier is recorded as having studied under Jules-Claude Ziegler. 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 Jules-Claude Ziegler is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Musée de l'Histoire de France, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon and Musée de Picardie. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
• Illustration — Half-dome in the Église de la Madeleine • Illustration — Tomb of Jules-Claude Ziegler, in the cemetery of Soyers • Vue de Venise la nuit (1832) bought by Louis-Philippe Ier • Venise vue de nuit (1833), sketch, musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes • Portrait of the Cardinal Montalte (1833) • Le Doge Foscari rentrant dans son palais après son abdication (1833), Arras, museum • Giotto chez Cimabue (1833), musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux • Saint Matthieu (1834), Condom Cathedral • Saint Georges terrassant le dragon (1834), Saint-Omer, église Notre-Dame, a replica at the musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy • Louis de Champagne, comte de Sancerre, Maréchal de France en 1368, Connétable en 1397 (1835) - Château de Versailles • Maréchal Kellerman (1835), Paris, Sénat • Le prophète Daniel dans la fosse aux lions (1838), Musée de Nantes (a replica in Langres) • L'Histoire du Christianisme (1836-1838), église de la Madeleine, Paris • Saint Luc peignant la Vierge (1839), museum of Dunkerque, a copy at the Musée Magnin of Dijon • L'Imagination (1839), Langres, museum (esquisse au Haggerty Museum of art, Marquette University, Milwaukee) • Le Bon Pasteur (1839), Montpellier, musée Fabre • La foi (stained glass), (1839) Eu, church • Autoportrait • Paysage d'hiver, Haute-Marne, personal collection • Notre-Dame des Neiges (1844), museum of Bourbonne-les-Bains • La Rosée répandant ses perles sur les fleurs (1844), Museum of Langres • Femme à sa toilette, une Vénitienne, (1844), châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau • Judith aux portes de Béthulie (1847), musée des beaux-arts de Lyon • Le Songe de Jacob (1847) • La République (1848), musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille • Les Pasteurs de la Bible, (1850) museum de Dijon • Pluie d'été, 1850, museum of Saint-Dizier • Charles Quint, devenu moine, renvoyant son portrait avec les insignes de l'empire, à Londres • Henri II et Diane de Poitiers • Agnès Sorel et Charles VII • Le Cardinal Gighi faisant des excuses à Louis XIV, museum of Versailles (1834) • Le Rosaire: Saint Dominique et Sainte Catherine, church of Ouge • La Paix d'Amiens (1853), Amiens, Tribunal • Portrait of Marquis de Coislin • La Vierge de Bourgogne, museum of Langres • Immaculée conception (1856), not finished, Museum of Langres
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• Illustration — The Peace of Amiens, 1853
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Jules-Claude Ziegler is recorded as photographer, painter, lithographer, graphic artist and ceramicist.
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1804
Jules-Claude Ziegler born at Langres.
1856
Jules-Claude Ziegler died at Paris.
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Langres.
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Jules-Claude Ziegler studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He trained under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and François Joseph Heim. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
Jules-Claude Ziegler received Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Work by Jules-Claude Ziegler is
National Gallery of Canada, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Musée de l'Histoire de France and Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
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