Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
- This article concerns the painter Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant; for others like the European writer and politician see Benjamin Constant (disambiguation).
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant | |
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 Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, ca. 1890 | |
| Born | Jean-Joseph Constant 10 June 1845 Paris, France |
| Died | 26 May 1902 Paris |
| Known for | Painting, etching |
| Movement | Orientalist |
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.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Gallery
3 See also
4 Publications
5 References
6 External links
Biography
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.
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Benjamin Constant, c. 1890–1910, Library of Congress
After 1880, he changed his manner, devoting himself to mural decorations and to portraits. Prominent examples include the great plafond in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, entitled Paris Convening the World; his paintings in the New Sorbonne, representing Literature, The Sciences, and the Academy of Paris; and the plafond of the Opéra Comique theatre. He was distinguished as a portrait painter, especially in England, where he was a favorite of the aristocracy. His portrait Mons fils André (Luxembourg) was awarded a medal of honor at the Salon in 1896.
Benjamin-Constant painted Pope Leo XIII, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (1901), Lord John Lumley-Savile, and Henri Blowitz (1902). He was made a member of the Institute in 1893, and was a commander of the Legion of Honor. He visited the United States several times, and painted a number of portraits. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York owns a large mural decoration by Benjamin-Constant entitled Justinian in Council.
Benjamin-Constant also taught; among his pupils was the miniaturist Alice Beckington.[1] He was a writer of repute, contributing a number of studies on contemporary French painters. Along with fellow artists, 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.[2]
He died in Paris on 26 May 1902.
Gallery
Arabes assis (1877)
Dahesh Museum of Art
Les nuits arabes
Private collection
La favorite d'émir (1879)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Judith
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Marchand de tapis à Tanger (1883)
Private collection
Entrée de Mehmed II dans Constantinople (1876)
Musée des Augustins Toulouse
Reclining Odalisque
Musée d'Orsay Salle de Orientalist
See also
- List of Orientalist artists
- Orientalism
- Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français
Publications
- Stranahan, Modern French Painters (New York, 1893)
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References
^ Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Carrie Rebora Barratt; Lori Zabar (1 January 2010). American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 244–. ISBN 978-1-58839-357-9.
^ Benjamin, R., Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930, University of California Press, 2003, p.57
External links
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Works by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant at the Art Renewal Center
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