Bernard-Romain Julien

French painter

Julien, Eugène Scribe, print

Julien, Pauline Viardot, print

Bernard Romain Julien or Bernard-Romain Julien (16 November 1802 – 3 December 1871) was a French printmaker, lithographer, painter and draughtsman.

Life

Julien was born on 16 November 1802 in Bayonne.^[1]^[2] He was trained to draw in his home town between 1815 and 1818 before moving to Paris, where he studied painting from 1822 onwards under Antoine-Jean Gros at the École des Beaux-Arts.^[1]

He exhibited some paintings and drawings at the Paris Salon between 1833 and 1850, but principally showed lithographs,^[1] for which he was known.^[3] He produced lithographs of other artists, like George Henry Hall's Cours de Dessin.^[4] In 1840, he published Étude à deux crayons ("Study in deux crayons").^[5]

In Landor's Cottage, Edgar Allan Poe describes Julien's work, "One of these drawings was a scene of Oriental luxury, or rather voluptuousness; another was a carnival piece, spirited beyond compare; the third was a Greek female head—a face so divinely beautiful, and yet of an expression so provokingly indeterminate, never before arrested my attention."^[5]

In 1854, he made a full-bust portrait of George Washington, after Gilbert Stuart, and the lithograph is in the art collection of Mount Vernon.^[6] He returned to his hometown in 1866 and taught drawing there until his death on 3 December 1871.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Bernard Romain Julien (Biographical details)". The British Museum. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Bernard-Romain Julien". Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library). Retrieved 30 December 2016.
^ The Academy: A Record of Literature, Learning, Science, and Art. Vol. III. London: Williams and Norgate. 1872. p. 7.
^ Ross Barrett (29 August 2014). Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art. Univ of California Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-520-28289-6.
^ ^a ^b Barbara Cantalupo (15 May 2014). Poe and the Visual Arts. Penn State Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-271-06436-9.
^ "Washington". Mount Vernon. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2016.