Ange-Louis Janet
Ange-Louis Janet(26 November 1815 – 22 November 1872) also known under the pseudonymJanet-Lange,was a French painter,illustrator,lithographerandengraver.
Biography[edit]
Born in Paris, Janet was admitted in 1833 at theÉcole des beaux-arts de Parisin the workshops ofIngres,Horace VernetandAlexandre-Marie Colin.He made his debut at theSalonin 1836 and continued to participate until 1870. He painted hunting scenes, military costumes and portraits[1]and composed paintings retracing episodes of French history, such as theCrimean Warfrom 1853 to 1856,[2]theSecond Italian War of Independence(1859) and theSecond French intervention in Mexicofrom 1861 to 1867.
He provided illustrations for newspapers such asL'Illustration,Le Tour du monde,theJournal amusantand theLe Journal pour rire.He also did some book illustration, including for the French edition ofG. A. Henty'sThe Young Franc-Tireurs(1873),Librairie Hachette,Paris. Henty like the illustrations so much that he gotelectrosfrom the wood blocks and used them to illustrate the story when it was serialised inUnion Jackin preference to the illustrations for the English edition.[3]
Janet died in Paris on 22 November 1872 at the age of 61.
References[edit]
- ^Georges Touchard-Lafosse,Chroniques de l'Œil-de-Bœuf: des petits appartements de la cour et des salons de Paris sous Louis XIV, la Régence, Louis XV, et Louis XVI,illustrated by Janet-Lange, inLe Panthéon populaire,17th series,Plonfrères, Paris (on line on archive.org).
- ^Histoire de la Guerre d'Orient,illustrated by Janet-Lange, ornée de cartes géographiques by A.-H. Dufour, G.Barba, Paris, 1856 (on line on archive.org).
- ^Newbolt, Peter (1996)."Appendix IV: Illustration and Design: Notes on Artists and Designers: Janet-Lange, Ange Louis, 1816-1872".G.A. Henty, 1832-1902: a bibliographical study of his British editions, with short accounts of his publishers, illustrators and designers, and notes on production methods used for his books.Brookfield, Vt.: Scholar Press. p. 628.ISBN9781859282083.Retrieved2020-05-02.
Bibliography[edit]
- David Karel,Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfèvres,Presses Université Laval, 1992, p. 413 (on line books.google).
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