François Étienne Victor de Clinchamp

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François Étienne Victor de Clinchamp (20 October 1787 in Toulon – 22 September 1880 in Paris) was a French painter and author.

Biography[edit]

He was the son of Charles François René de Clinchamp, student of the Royal Military School, infantry captain, and of Claire Victoire Fortunée Bonnefoi.[1] His family, one of the oldest in Normandy, had settled in Toulon.[2] He married Alexandrine Françoise Crette de Palluel in Paris on August 21, 1820.[3]

He was destined to a naval career, but his health failing he went to Paris, where he studied painting under Le Barbier and Peyron then with Girodet.[4][5]

Nevertheless, he was called to direct the Toulon School of drawing of the Navy.[6][7] He painted a considerable number of religious paintings for several churches in the South of France: Christ healing the Sick of the Palsy,[8] The Sons of Zebedee, The Death of Phocion,[8] The Baptism of Saint-Mandrier[9] and a Crucifixion, which was his best exhibited work.[4][5]

He has contributed to several newspapers, including the Ami du Bien of Marseille.[10] He wrote some works on perspective, and several dramatic pieces.[5] Around 1820 he invented a device named noctograph to allow blind people to read.[11]

He took part in the Paris Salon in 1840 and 1841.[12][5]

This tireless worker, moreover, found time, in the midst of the daily occupations to which he was condemned, to write a volume of fables, plays, memoirs on the theory and practice of painting and on aesthetics. Finally, this amiable artist, who remained young at heart, published, in his eighty-second year, a work of literature. He was for a long time a teacher of drawing at the Naval School; he gave up this position in 1824, the year in which the school was transferred to a port on the ocean. While he was practising his art in Toulon, many young people attended the workshop-school he ran, next to his private workshop, in his former heritage house located on the Cours Lafayette and bearing the number 68.

— Société de l'histoire de l'art français, "Archives de l'art français", Nouvelles archives de l'art français, 1894, pp.221-222 (on line on archive.org)

Works[edit]

  • Éléments de perspective linéaire et aérienne (Paris,1820)
  • Nouveau traité de la perspective des ombres et de la théorie des reflets (Toulon, 1825)
  • Recueil de Fables nouvelles (Toulon, 1829)
  • Cours complet de perspective linéaire et aérienne (1840)
  • Nouveau traité de la perspective linéaire, à l'usage des artistes et des écoles de dessin; dans lequel on trouvera les réflections des miroirs ... (in French). Carilian-Goeury. 1840.
  • A collection of small society plays and dramas, Rodolphe de Vart, Christine à Fontainebleau, etc.[10]

Honours[edit]

Legion of Honour Knight Knight of the French Legion of Honour.[4]

Legacy[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais (1814). Nobiliaire universel de France, ou recueil général des généalogies historiques des maisons nobles de ce royaume (in French). p. 503.
  2. ^ Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1852). Archives de l'art français (in French). Paris: F. de Nobele. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Collaborative Indexes". Mayet Collection: Wedding Tables from All Parisian Parishes: 1795–1862. Feb 24, 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  4. ^ a b c Annuaire historique et biographique des souverains (in French). À la direction des archives historiques. 1846. p. 27.
  5. ^ a b c d Bryan, Michael (1886). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical. Vol. I. G. Bell and Sons. p. 284. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ^ "Individual personnel file". servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr (in French). Service historique de la Défense. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  7. ^ Annales maritimes et coloniales: publiées avec l'approbation du ministre de la marine et des colonies (in French). Imprimerie royale. 1820. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  8. ^ a b Dictionnaire historique des peintres de toutes les écoles) at the Internet Archive
  9. ^ "Tableau et statues - Saint Mandrier" (in French). Fondation du patrimoine. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  10. ^ a b Dreyfus, Camille, ed. (1885–1902). La grande encyclopédie : inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts. Tome 11 (in French). Paris: Société anonyme de “La Grande encyclopédie”. p. 680. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Dictionnaire du livre" (in French). Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  12. ^ Griffiths, Harriet; Mill, Alister. "Database of Salon Artists". Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  13. ^ "Rue Francois de Clinchamp on the map of Toulon". Street view. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
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