Léon-Eugène Méhédin
Léon-Eugène Méhédin (21 February 1828, L'Aigle – 4 March 1905, Bonsecours) was a French archaeologist, architect and photographer. Méhédin's was a fervent Bonapartist and his career was greatly facilitated when he erected two triumphal arches in L'Aigle in 1851 to celebrate Napoléon III's French coup of that year. In 1855, he designed Civitavecchia's train station and went on a mission of photo reconnaissance to the Crimean War with Jean-Charles Langlois.
Also recorded as Leon-Eugene Mehedin · L. Mehedin
Léon-Eugène Méhédin
![Le Temple de Xochicalco - Expo] Paris 1867, Léon-Eugène Méhédin / Jules Gaildrau,](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Le_Temple_de_Xochicalco_Expo_Paris1867_Mehedin_Gaildrau.jpg/817px-Le_Temple_de_Xochicalco_Expo_Paris1867_Mehedin_Gaildrau.jpg)
Jules Gaildrau · L'Exposition universelle de 1867 illustrée: publication internationale autorisée par la Commission impériale, Commission impériale · Public domain
- Name
- Léon-Eugène Méhédin
- Born
- 21 February 1828
- Birthplace
- L'Aigle
- Died
- 14 March 1905
- Place of death
- Bonsecours
- Known for
- archaeologist, architect and photographer
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- architect · anthropologist · archaeologist · photographer
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · Order of the Medjidie · knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
- Languages
- French
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Léon-Eugène Méhédin (21 February 1828, L'Aigle – 4 March 1905, Bonsecours) was a French archaeologist, architect and photographer. Méhédin's was a fervent Bonapartist and his career was greatly facilitated when he erected two triumphal arches in L'Aigle in 1851 to celebrate Napoléon III's French coup of that year. In 1855, he designed Civitavecchia's train station and went on a mission of photo reconnaissance to the Crimean War with Jean-Charles Langlois.
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Biography
Biography
In 1859, he drew a portrait of Napoleon III. He compiled an archaeological album on Egypt. In 1865, he photographed the ruins of Xochicalco for the Scientific Commission of Mexico in Paris. He also made a papier-mâché cast of a planned Luxor Obelisk for the Exposition Universelle of 1867 which never came to be when Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico fell in 1867. Some of his collections lay in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen and others are at the City Library of the same city.
The recorded working language is French. Work by Léon-Eugène Méhédin is recorded in the collections of J. Paul Getty Museum. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour, Order of the Medjidie and knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.
‘Temple of Xochicalco in the Park. Le Temple de Xochicalco, dans le Parc’, aus: Illustrated London News, 1. Juni 1867, nach: T. P. Smits, „Looking at the same world. The European illustrated press and the emergence of a transnational visual culture of the news, 1842-1870“, Radboud University, 17. Januar 2019, 322 Seiten, Abb. 4.9, S. 290, https: repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/201455/2
The Illustrated London News, 1. Juni 1867 · aus: Illustrated London News, 1. Juni 1867, nach: T. P. Smits, „Looking at the same world. The European illustrated press and the emergence of a transnational visual culture of the news, 1842-1870“, R
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Léon-Eugène Méhédin • Born — 21 February 1828 • Birthplace — L'Aigle • Died — 14 March 1905 • Place of death — Bonsecours • Known for — archaeologist, architect and photographer
Works
Works
• Campagne d’Italie en 1859: vues de Magenta, Milan, Melegnano, Dezensano, Valeggio, Villafranca et du pont de Buffalora, [S.l.s.n.], 1859. • Description de l’Égypte, commencée sous les auspices de Napoléon I er, continuée par ordre de Napoléon III, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1859. • Divinité mythique de la mort, à laquelle on offrait les victimes humaines par plusieurs milliers à la fois dans les rites religieux de l’antiquité mexicaine, Paris, Lainé et Havard, 1867. • Projet de fêtes publiques à Paris, Paris, Bailly, Divry & Cie, 1852. • Souvenirs de la guerre de Crimée: 29 photographies de Charles Langlois et Léon Méhédin, entre 1855–1856, [S.l.s.n.], 1856.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen, 1992
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Life and career
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1828
Léon-Eugène Méhédin born at L'Aigle.
1905
Léon-Eugène Méhédin died at Bonsecours.
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L'Aigle.
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Léon-Eugène Méhédin is recorded as having received Knight of the Legion of Honour, Order of the Medjidie and knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.
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Collections
• Musée d'Orsay • Musée de l'Armée • Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Recognition and collections
Léon-Eugène Méhédin received Knight of the Legion of Honour, Order of the Medjidie and knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus. Paul Getty Museum.
Honors
• Officer of the Imperial Order of Medjidie (1862) • Officer of the Order of Guadalajara (1866) • Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (1867) • Knight of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (1867)
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