Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant

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Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, ca. 1890
Born
Jean-Joseph Constant

10 June 1845
Paris, France
Died26 May 1902 (aged 56)
Paris, France
Known forPainting, etching
MovementOrientalist

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (also known as Benjamin-Constant), born Jean-Joseph Constant (10 June 1845 – 26 May 1902), was a French painter and

etcher best known for his Oriental subjects and portraits
.

Biography

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Benjamin Constant, c. 1890–1910, Library of Congress
Portrait of Queen Victoria
The Immaculate Conception

Benjamin-Constant was born in Paris. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, where he was a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel. A journey to Morocco in 1872 strongly influenced his early artistic development and lead him to produce Romantic scenes under the spell of Orientalism. Among his noted works in this vein are Last Rebels, Justice in the Harem (both in the Luxembourg Gallery), Les Chérifas, and Moroccan Prisoners (Bordeaux). His large canvas, The Entrance of Mahomet II into Constantinople (Musée des Augustins Toulouse), received a medal in 1876.

After 1880, he changed his manner, devoting himself to

Salon
in 1896.

Benjamin-Constant painted

Legion of Honor. He visited the United States several times, and painted a number of portraits. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York exhibited a large painting by Benjamin-Constant entitled Justinian in Council. The painting was returned by the Metropolitan to the owners family in 1928. It was purchased by John Ringling in 1929 and is currently on exhibit in the Ringling Museum in Sarasota

Benjamin-Constant also taught at

Nasreddine Dinet, Paul Leroy, Jean-Léon Gérôme and curator/ art historian, Léonce Bénédite, he was one of the founders of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français.[4]

He died in Paris on 26 May 1902.

Gallery

See also

Publications

  • Stranahan, Clara Harrison (1879). A History of French Painting. New York City, New York.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Strahan, Edward (1977). The Art Treasures of America. Vol. III. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. p. 60.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

  1. ^ "Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant". The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  2. ISBN 978-1-58839-357-9
    .
  3. ^ Sale of Tiddley Winks by William Somerville Shanks, R.S.A., R.S.W - Sotheby's (2008)
  4. ^ Benjamin, R., Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930, University of California Press, 2003, p.57
  • wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
    New International Encyclopedia
    (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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