Gigoux, Jean-Francois (French, 1806-1894) - La Duchesse D'Orleans Annoncant la Victoire D'Hastembeck (Beraldi 81)

Paris: French Publisher, circa 1834. Lithograph on chine colle wove paper, with margins. 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (sheet). Initialed 'G" in the image. Very Good. Light specks of foxing in the margin areas. Print affixed at right sheet edge to another support sheet. Ref: (Catalogue Raisonne): Les Graveurs du XIX Siecle, Guide de L'Amateur d'Estampes Modernes par Henri Beraldi (Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1888). Jean Francois Gigoux (1806-1894), painter, printmaker, and illustrator, was born on January 8, 1806, in Besancon, France and he first studied at l'Academie de Besancon. In 1828 Gigoux went to Paris and enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he studied under Theodore Gericault and Camille Corot. Gigoux was foremost a portrait and history painter and he holds a distinguished place among the painters of the Romantic School. He also worked in woodcut and etching but he was quite facile with the lithographic crayon and is noted for his romantic and passionate portraits in the medium. In 1842 Gigoux became a chevalier in the Legion of Honor and was named an officer of the Legion in 1880. He was the last love of countess Eveline Hansak, the widow of French novelist Honore de Balzac. Gigoux dies December 31, 1894 at the age of eighty-eight. .

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