Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont

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Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont (Paris 13 June 1797 – 20 January 1892 Paris) was a French engraver. His students included Charles Bellay, Jean-Baptiste Danguin, Adrien Didier, Alphonse and Jules François, Adolphe-Joseph Huot, Achille and Jules Jaquet, Jules Gabriel Levasseur, Aristide Louis, Louis Marckl, Isidore-Joseph Rousseaux, Abel Mignon and Charles Albert Waltner.

Life

Between the ages of 14 and 17, he studied painting in the studio of

Académie des beaux-arts
. He became a professor at the École des beaux-arts in 1863 and founded the Société française de la gravure in 1868. In 1871 he was made president of the Académie des beaux-arts and was still engraving aged 85.

Works

Working not only with the

Corregio or Caravaggio. As an illustrator, he notably engraved works by Alexandre-Joseph Desenne's and Achille Devéria's vignettes for the Fables by La Fontaine and for La Pucelle d'Orléans by Voltaire
, though it is his portraits for which he is most noted:

Hemicycle


The central panel of the Hemicycle of the Fine Arts at the

Ictinos, Apelles, Phidias. To the left : ancient Greek and medieval art.
To the right: ancient Roman and Renaissance art. Centre :allegory of Art
.

Two artists, Théophile Gautier and Charles Blanc, have compared Delaroche's work to that of Henriquel, both preferring the engraver to the painter :

Bertin portrait

  • Portrait by Ingres (1832).
    Portrait by
    Ingres
    (1832).
  • Engraving by Henriquel-Dupont (1844).
    Engraving by Henriquel-Dupont (1844).

One of Henriquel-Dupont's most famous portraits is that of the journalist

Paris Salon, Baudelaire
preferred the painting to the engraving :

Henriquel Dupont has procured for us the pleasure of contemplating for a second time the magnificent portrait of M. Bertin, by M. Ingres, the only man in France who truly makes portraits. - Without contradiction this is the finest he has made, even including that of Cherubini.— Perhaps the turning fire and majesty of his model doubles the audacity of M. Ingres, the daring man par excellence. — As for the engraving, it is so conscientious to [the painting], we believe it is not at all biased towards the painting. - We will not dare to affirm it, but we believe the engraver has omitted certain small details on the nose and in the eyes.[2]

Portraits

Other selected works

  • Burial of Christ (after
    Hippolyte Delaroche
    )
  • The Abdication of Gustavus Vasa (1831, after Louis Hersent)
  • Christus als Tröster (after Ary Scheffer)
  • The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (1867, after
    Correggio
    )
  • Moses (after
    Hippolyte Delaroche
    )
  • The Supper in Emmaus (Ätzdruck, after Paolo Veronese)
  • General Lariboisière and his son (after Antoine-Jean Gros

Notes, sources and references

  1. Henri Beraldi
    , Les Graveurs du XIXe siècle, vol VIII, 1889, p. 79.
  2. ^ Charles Baudelaire, Curiosités esthétiques, L'art romantique et autres œuvres critiques, I. Salon de 1845, Dessins. Gravures, Bordas, Paris, 1990.

Bibliography

  • Étienne-Jean Delécluze, L'Hémicycle du Palais des Beaux-Arts, peinture murale exécutée par Paul Delaroche. et gravé au burin par M. Henriquel-Dupont. Notice explicative suivie d’un trait figuratif indiquant les noms de tous les personnages, leur naissance, leur mort, etc., Paris, Goupil, Paris, 1857.

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