Author: HEINSIUS, JOHANN JULIUS. Oulmont, Charles.
Title: J.-E. Heinsius 1740-1812. Peintre de mesdames de France.
Description: Paris, Hachette et cie, 1913. VII,[1],129,[2] pp. 5 col. & 83 monochr. mounted plates, each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Contemp. brown h.mor., gilt lettering on spine, spine raised in compartments, marbled covers, t.e.g. 4to. - Foxed (plates fine).Fine copy in of this monograph on Johann Julius Heinsius [!!] (7 February 1740, Hildburghausen - 19 May 1812, Orléans), born Heintz or Heinse, a German oil painter and miniaturist. He was the brother of Johann Ernst Heinsius (21 May 1731, Ilmenau - 18 October 1794, Erfurt), a German portrait painter and miniaturist. The close relationship has often led to confusion and misattributions of works in art historiography, although the biographies of both brothers were known by the end of the 1930s at the latest. - - The younger brother Johann Julius, the subject of this monograph by Charles Oulmont, in which he is incorrectly called Johann Ernst, was an important portraitist in oils and miniatures. He seems to have accompanied his father to the Netherlands around 1752 and was registered as a member of the Confrérie in The Hague in 1767. From 1771 he visited Lille (exhibiting at the salon in 1774), Douai, Utrecht and Rouen, settling in Paris in 1779. Here he exhibited canvases at the Salon de la Correspondance in 1779 and 1782. Heinsius's portraits of Mesdames de France, made between 1785 and 1788, necessitated his departure for Orléans during the Revolution; he remained based there until his death. This Heinsius signed his early works JJ Heinsius, changing to JHeinsius with the monogrammed initials, while the later works are signed heinsius with a small h. Heinsius was primarily an oil painter and miniaturist, but also made drawings in black chalk. It is not clear whether he used pastel (although it has been observed that he mixed colours in his oil paintings as in a pastel. - - Published in a limited edition of 550 numbered copies. This is copy number 373 of the 500 copies on papier vélin.

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