Descripción
INK DRAWING NUDES BY JACQUES MARTIN 1898
Ink drawing signed by Jaques Martin dated 1898
measures 33cm (13”) x 17 cm (6.5”)
Jacques Martin is a French painter, born November 11, 1844 in Villeurbanne and died November 13, 1919 in Lyon.
Biography
After studying chemical engineering at the École centrale de Lyon, Jacques Martin became director of the Coignet factory, producing glue, gelatin, then concrete.
In 1878, he set up a workshop in his residence located in the factory, at no. 12 rue Baraban, not far from Cours Lafayette2. Self-taught at a time when especially painters from the School of Fine Arts were recognized, he was encouraged by François Vernay to practice painting3.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was one of his first admirers of him and said of him: “Mr Jacques Martin is the honor of current Lyon painting. This, which leaves no one in doubt, was long considered a paradox. I will not begin to recount the struggles that the old artist hardened. It is enough for me to recall that the tone of insults and insults increased singularly in his honor. When the critics did not unite with the painters, in a fierce and silent conspiracy, they showered Jacques Martin with the worst sarcasm. “.
Since 1881, he participated in numerous salons in Lyon and Paris, he was notably one of the artists selected for the Universal Exhibition of 1894 and the International Exhibition of Fine Arts of 1914.
Around 1904, he founded the Lyon Autumn Salon with Eugène Brouillard, but also exhibited at the Pouillé-Lecoultre, Maire-Pourceaux, Malaval and Galerie des Archers galleries. It will triumph at the Salon d’Automne in Lyon in 19114.
He is the author of numerous paintings of flowers, still lives, nudes and portraits in which we find the influence of his master François Vernay as well as the painter Auguste Renoir.
He was also a violinist and founded a chamber music society where he performed the classic tunes of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Georg Friedrich Handel with the greatest respect. Appreciating the company of singers, instrumentalists and conversationalists of the time, he found their company in the most eminent salon of Lyon, that of his cousin Mme Mauvernay. Jacques Martin died on November 13, 19195 in Lyon and was buried on November 15, 1919 in the presence of many admirers6.