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Paul Jamin

Paul Jamin

French painter (1853–1903)

Paul Joseph Jamin (9 February 1853 – 10 July 1903) was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school.

"Le Brenn et sa part de butin" ("Brenn and His Share of the Spoils"), painting by Paul Jamin (1893), Musée des beaux-arts de La Rochelle.

Life and career

Jamin was born in Paris in 1853.[1] He was the son of Jules Jamin, physicist and permanent secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.[1] He married Augustine Marie Caroline Bastien in 1882, with whom he had four children.

He was a student of Gustave Boulanger.[2]

His paintings were shown frequently at the Salon throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century.[1] One of his best-known paintings is Le Brenn et sa part de butin (1893), which depicts the Gaulish chieftain Brennus viewing his captives after the looting of Rome.

Jamin died in Paris on 10 July 1903.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Bryan, Michael; George Charles Williamson (1904). Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers. Vol. III. London: George Bell & sons. p. 105. OCLC 557491136.
  2. [2]
    Bourdon, Étienne. "Paul Jamin et la prise de Rome par Brennus ou le passé gaulois fantasmé (Le Brenn et sa part de butin, 1893)". Parlement[s], Revue d'histoire politique. 32 (2). Retrieved 16 March 2021.


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