Léopold Flameng
Léopold Flameng (22 November 1831, Brussels – 5 September 1911, Courgent) was a French engraver, illustrator and painter. • Illustration — Léopold Flameng; portrait by his son, François (1877)
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Léopold Flameng
François Flameng · Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium · Public domain
- Born
- 1831
- Died
- 1911
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · etcher · copper engraver · draftsperson · engraver
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His parents were from France, and he began his artistic studies in Paris with Luigi Calamatta and Jean Gigoux. His engraving skills were noticed by Charles Blanc, and his collaboration with his fellow engraver, Léon Gaucherel, in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts and L'Artiste, helped to ensure his reputation. He eventually provided over one hundred illustrations. In 1858, he was involved in an unfortunate incident when the artist Charles Meryon, who was suffering from a mental illness, attempted to tear up Flameng's recently completed portrait of him. Shortly after, Meryon entered a hospital. Flameng paid a visit to him there and made some sketches. Known for his etchings of works by Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Ingres and Delacroix, he illustrated several books on Paris and numerous literary works of classical and contemporary authors, including Boccaccio, Paul Scarron, Victor Hugo and François Coppée. He was also the illustrator for the 1868 Revised edition of Picciola by X. B. Saintine, published after his death in 1865. He was a medallist at the Exposition Universelle (1878). By 1882, he had become a noted art collector. From 1884, he was also a member of "Le Parnasse-Club" and later joined the Société d'aquarellistes français. He was named an Officer in the Legion of Honor in 1894. and elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1898. His numerous students included Richard Geiger, Auguste Laguillermie, and Paul Adolphe Rajon, as well as his son, François.
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• Illustration — Charles Meryon on His Sick Bed (1858) • Illustration — Marguérite at the fountain (after Ary Scheffer) • Illustration — Cover of Lectures Pour Tous (1911) • Illustration — Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (after Léon Bonnat) • Illustration — Young girl (after Gustave Courtois) • Illustration — "The Hundred Guilder Print" (Christ Receiving the Sick, after Rembrandt)
Portrait of Meryon Sitting Up in Bed, 1858, by Léopold Flameng
Léopold Flameng · The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Milton Curtiss Rose Collection in memory of Evelyn Curtiss Rose
Pierre Carl Édouard Potain. Etching by L. Flameng., by Léopold Flameng
Léopold Flameng · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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- 1.Figaro du 5 septembre 1911, page 3/6, publié sur le site de la BnF (consulté le ).
- 2.« Une semaine en ballon : léger aérostat, ô divine espérance… », sur le site l'œil des chats, publié le (consulté le ).
- 3.Paris qui s’en va et Paris qui vient, sur Gallica.
- 4.Les merveilles de la gravure. Hachette et Cie.
- 5.L'Hôtel Drouot. Georges Charpentier. 1883. 29065874.
- 6.Les dîners artistiques et littéraires de Paris. Frinzine, Klein et. 1884.
- 7.Le . Voir dossier Léonore : LH/979/45, sur le site du ministère de la Culture (consulté le ).
- 8.L'édition d'architecture à Paris au. Librairie Droz. 2004. 9782600008792.
- 9.Élève en 1861, prix de Rome en gravure en 1866.
- 10.Fond d'édition Hetzel : Contrats d'illustration (1861), publié en sur le site imec d'abbaye d'ardenne (consulté le ).
- 11.Un exemplaire est conservé à Paris au département arts graphiques du musée du Louvre.
- 12., recto : « RC » à la craie, , achat de 1996, : BMA1996.48.13440.
- 13.: 70.45.15. Don de Victor T. Keene.
- 14., acquisition de Craddock et Barnard à Londres.
- 15., : 1987.1.100. L'une des 26 planches exécutées pour la suite Paris qui s'en va et Paris qui vient éditée par Alfred Cadart.
- 16.: 1963.30.3103.
- 17., : 1992.103.10.
- 18., : 1963.30.3113.
- 19.Dunité 27.2 17.6 cm .
- 20., : 1963.30.3108.
- 21., : 1963.30.3109.
- 22., : 1963.30.3112.
- 23., : 1963.30.3111.
- 24., : 1963.30.3104.
- 25., : 1963.30.3105.
- 26., : 1963.30.3106.
- 27., : 1963.30.3110.
- 28.: 1963.30.28463.
- 29.: 1963.30.27940.
- 30.: 1963.30.27941.
- 31.:1963.30.27939.
- 32.: C.2006.0.205.
- 33.Épreuve avant inscription, , : C.53.049/2.
- 34., : C.53.049/80.
- 35., : C.50.021/14, acquis en 1950, ancienne collection Ernest Lefebvre.
- 36., : C.53.049/275, provenance Ingrand-Bellet, entrée en 1953, acquis en 1954.
- 37., inscription lettre au centre sous le trait carré : « Léop. Flameng » lettre sous le sujet à droite: au crayon , : C 51.024/23, acquisition de 1951.
- 38.: MG796.
- 39.Dunité 14 19 cm .
- 40., : A730 ; BA1 75 H64 (Inv. Magnien), ancienne collection Henry Havard.
- 41.Legs Wasset en 1896.
- 42.Réalisée à la demande de Léon Gambetta d'après le tableau de Jean-Jacques Henner, cette image sera tirée à un grand nombre d'exemplaires pour servir la propagande du pouvoir.
- 43., : RF6054, acquis en 1923. Provenant de la succession de François Flameng, ce portrait fut exécuté au rue Saint-Jacques au domicile de Méryon, le , la veille de son internement à Charenton.
- 44., : invgravures 7203.
- 45., acquis en 1929.
- 46.Du au .
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