Nicolas Eustache Maurin

Nicolas Eustache Maurin (1799–1850) was a French painter, lithographer and engraver. His lithographs, particularly those characteristic of their period, are highly sought after.[1]

Conquest of Mexico
Hernando Cortes Opposed to Human Sacrifice
Cortes destroying his fleet at Vera Cruz, 1519

Life

Nicolas Eustache Maurin was born in Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, on 6 March 1799.[2] He was the younger son of the painter Pierre Maurin; his elder brother was the painter Antoine Maurin.[1]

Maurin received his first artistic lessons in his father's studio. He received an allowance from the town and the department to study in Paris, which enabled him to enter Henri Regnault's studio as a pupil. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1833, 1834, and 1835.[1]

He established himself as a lithographer in 1830 and distinguished himself mainly with some amusing and erotic pictures of different types of women. He is notable as a painter of fashions and manners; examples include: Love, Modesty, Tenderness, Tender Avowal, Love Match, Nuptial Chamber, Day after the Wedding, Sacred and Profane, and Maternal and Conjugal Love.[1]

He also produced the series Iconography of Contemporaries (Iconographie des contemporains), and a series of 163 portraits entitled Contemporary Celebrities (Célébrités contemporaines).[1]

Maurin died in Passy, Paris on 7 October 1850, aged fifty-one.[3]

Selected works
Notre-Dame de Paris (1834)
Esmeralda, Claude Frollo and Gudulle
Esmeralda, Phoebus and Claude Frollo
Death of Esmeralda

Portraits
  • Portrait du général polonais Joseph Dwernicki (Salon, 1833, no. 2,899)
  • Portrait du général polonais Pac (Salon, 1833, no. 2,900)
  • Portrait du médecin français Gilbert Breschet

Illustrations

Lithographs
  • La toilette, after Prud'hon, 21 x 17 cm (Musée Baron Martin)
  • Le triomphe de Bonaparte, after Prud'hon, 35 x 52 cm (Musée Baron Martin)

Notes
  1. Oliver, ed. 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  2. Thurmair 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  3. "Décès. V3E/D 1033, 40/51". Archives de Paris. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

References
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