Henri Julien
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| Born | Octave-Henri Julien May 14, 1852 Quebec City, Province of Canada |
| Died | September 17, 1908 (aged 56) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
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Henri Julien, baptised Octave-Henri Julien (14 May 1852 – 17 September 1908), was a
Personal history and career
Octave-Henri Julien was born in Quebec City on 14 May 1852 to Henri and Zoé Julien and grew up in the Saint-Roch neighbourhood.[1] His father worked as a turner for a mechanical press and his brothers Émile and Télesphore also went on to work in printing.[2] Early influences on Julien include caricatures by the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Côté,[3] who lived nearby among the artisans of saint-Roche, and the country folk of nearby L'Ange-Gardien who inspired many of Julien's later drawings.[2]
After the elder Julien won work with the Queen's printer George-Paschal Desbarats the family frequently moved as the capital of the Province of Canada moved: Toronto in 1855–59, Quebec City in 1859–65, and Ottawa in 1866–68, where he attended the College of Ottawa. He thereafter moved to Montreal where he apprenticed as an engraver at Leggo and Company, a partnership between William Leggo and George-Édouard Desbarats, where he met cartoonists such as Edward Jump who worked for Desbarats's illustrated magazines Canadian Illustrated News and L'Opinion publique.[2]
Julien cartooned in Desbarats's employ until 1888; during this time he contributed to numerous other publications as well, including Le Canard and Le Violon published by Hector Berthelot, sometimes under pseudonyms such as Crincrin[2] (in Le Violon from 1878 to 1903)[3] and Octavo. His work included caricatures of politicians and illustrated journalism. In 1874 he accompanied George Arthur French and the North-West Mounted Police on an expedition to the fork of the Bow and Belly Rivers in Alberta; his drawings of the Canadian West appeared in the Canadian Illustrated News and L'Opinion publique in 1874–75,[2] including a report on combatting contraband alcohol sales in Fort Whoop-Up.[3]
Julien spent six months in New York in 1888; upon his return to Canada the same year he became artistic director at the
Julien drew with speed and accuracy
Julien married Marie-Louise Legault dit Deslauriers (d. 1924) in Montreal on 17 October 1876; of the couple's eighteen children, seven daughters and one son survived into adulthood.
Julien died in Montreal on 17 September 1908.[2] of a sudden stroke of apoplexy on St. James Street across from the St. Lawrence Hall. He had just left the Montreal Star in apparent good health with his son.[6] At the time he was developing sketches for a parade to celebrate Quebec's 300th anniversary.[2]
Le Vieux de '37
Le Vieux de '37 (French for "The Old Man of '37") is the name under which is known an illustration by Julien created in approximately 1880 to illustrate Le vieux patriote, a poem from
It depicts a participant of the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 which sought to make of Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) a democratic republic independent from the British Empire. It is nowadays one of the best known symbols of the Rebellion. It was used by the Front de libération du Québec as an illustration for pamphlets and communiqués during the 1960s and the year 1970. Some contemporary Patriote flags are flanked with them in their center.
Legacy
The sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert eulogized Julien as "the most original talent in this country".[a] A posthumous collection of his cartoons appeared in the Album Henri Julien in 1916.[3]
The architect William Sutherland Maxwell toured an exhibition of 125 unpublished works by Julien in 1936. The show visited Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, and at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec[7] in Quebec City. The National Gallery of Canada organized a retrospective of Julien's work in 1938, a unique event for a cartoonist in Canada.[3]
A print by Henri Julien of the "
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec holds the most important collection of Julien's work, including La Chasse-galerie, Julien's best-known painting, inspired by a French-Canadian legend about a flying canoe.[3]
List of books
- Sous les pins (1902) – written by Adolphe Poisson with illustrations by Julien[3]
- La légende d'un peuple (1908) – written by Louis-Honoré Fréchette with illustrations by Julien[3]
- Album Henri Julien (1916)[3]
Gallery
- Works by Henri Julien
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Moving scene, L'Opinion publique, 18 May 1876 -
Six Months in the Wilds of the North-West, Canadian Illustrated News, 13 February 1875 -
Le Patriote, gouache on brown paper, 1904 -
La Chasse-galerie, oil on canvas, 1906
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Notes
References
- ^ Guilbault 1994, pp. 533–534.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Guilbault 1994, p. 534.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Karel 1992, p. 425.
- ^ Spencer 2013, p. 57.
- ^ Guilbault 1994, p. 535.
- ^ Montreal Gazette staff 1908, p. 12.
- ^ "Henri Julien". www.collections.mnbaq.org. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ Gouvernement du Canada, Ministère du Patrimoine canadien. "Artefacts Canada". app.pch.gc.ca.
- ^ "Erudit revues culturelles". retro.erudit.org.
Works cited
- Guilbault, Nicole (1994). "Julien Henri". In ISBN 978-0-8020-3998-9.
- Karel, David, ed. (1992). "Julien, Octave-Henri (Crincrin)". Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfèvres (in French). Presses Université Laval. p. 425. ISBN 978-2-7637-7235-6.
- Montreal Gazette staff (18 September 1908). "Henri Julien Dead". Montreal Gazette. p. 12.
- Spencer, David R. (2013). Drawing Borders: The American-Canadian Relationship during the Gilded Age. ISBN 978-1-4411-0912-5.
Further reading
- Barbeau, Marius (1941). Henri Julien. Ryerson Press.
- Hardy, Dominic (2005). "Henri Julien: Ce diable homme". In Cambron, Micheline (ed.). La vie culturelle à Montréal vers 1900 (in French). Les Editions Fides. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-2-7621-2222-0.
External links
Media related to Henri Julien at Wikimedia Commons
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