Pierre-Auguste BELIN (1821, Boulot - 1890, Dole) - Lot 116

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Pierre-Auguste BELIN (1821, Boulot - 1890, Dole) - Lot 116
Pierre-Auguste BELIN (1821, Boulot - 1890, Dole) Charming scene Watercolor on paper, signed lower right 37.5 x 24 cm on view Born in Boulot (Haute-Saône), August 26, 1821; died in Dole (Jura), July 16, 1890. Pupil of Besson. Founded, with Philippon, the Journal amusant. Had established a workshop where several other draftsmen were trained (Dictionnaire des Artistes et Ouvriers d'Art de la Franche-Comté, Abbé Paul Brune, 1912). The Musée de Dole houses an important collection of drawings by Pierre-Auguste Belin. A pupil of Désiré Besson at the Dole drawing school, Belin quickly made a name for himself in the capital, where his work as a genre draughtsman led him to found a studio in which Jules Chéret (1836-1932) and Alfred Grévin (1827-1892) were trained. He teamed up with journalist and cartoonist Charles Philippon (1800-1862) to create the Journal Amusant, "a humorous work in which the foibles of human nature take on such a fine and witty physiognomy" (La République du Jura, July 26, 1890). The festive theme is a recurrent one in Belin's illustrations. For example, in the Journal amusant of February 2, 1856, he published Entrée du bal masqué de l'Opéra, which he later illustrated in several works, including Sortie d'un bal masqué. The society of the Second Empire and its taste for ancient art are reflected in shimmering watercolors, with their lively lines and attention to detail, as in Grévin's theater costumes and Théodore Maurisset's carnival scenes (Bénédicte Gaulard, Éclectique XIXe, exhibition catalog Musée des beaux-arts de Dole, 2014).
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