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François Étienne Victor de Clinchamp (20 October 1787 in Toulon - 22 September 1880 in Paris) was a French painter and author.

Biography

He was the son of Charles François René de Clinchamp, student of the Royal Military School, infantry captain, and of Claire Victoire Fortunée Bonnefoi.[1] His family, one of the oldest in Normandy, had settled in Toulon.[2] He married Alexandrine Françoise Crette de Palluel in Paris on August 21, 1820.[3]

He was destined to a naval career, but his health failing he went to Paris, where he studied painting under Le Barbier and Peyron then with Girodet.[4][5]

Nevertheless, he was called to direct the Toulon School of drawing of the Navy.[6][7] He painted a considerable number of religious paintings for several churches in the South of France: Christ healing the Sick of the Palsy,[8] The Sons of Zebedee, The Death of Phocion,[8] The Baptism of Saint-Mandrier[9] and a Crucifixion, which was his best exhibited work.[4][5]

He has contributed to several newspapers, including the Ami du Bien of Marseille.[10] He wrote some works on perspective, and several dramatic pieces.[5] Around 1820 he invented a device named noctograph to allow blind people to read.[11]

He took part in the Paris Salon in 1840 and 1841.[12][5]

This tireless worker, moreover, found time, in the midst of the daily occupations to which he was condemned, to write a volume of fables, plays, memoirs on the theory and practice of painting and on aesthetics. Finally, this amiable artist, who remained young at heart, published, in his eighty-second year, a work of literature. He was for a long time a teacher of drawing at the Naval School; he gave up this position in 1824, the year in which the school was transferred to a port on the ocean. While he was practising his art in Toulon, many young people attended the workshop-school he ran, next to his private workshop, in his former heritage house located on the Cours Lafayette and bearing the number 68.

— Société de l'histoire de l'art français, "Archives de l'art français", Nouvelles archives de l'art français, 1894, pp.221-222 (on line on archive.org)

Works

• Éléments de perspective linéaire et aérienne (Paris,1820)
• Nouveau traité de la perspective des ombres et de la théorie des reflets (Toulon, 1825)
• Recueil de Fables nouvelles (Toulon, 1829)
• Cours complet de perspective linéaire et aérienne (1840)
• Nouveau traité de la perspective linéaire, à l'usage des artistes et des écoles de dessin; dans lequel on trouvera les réflections des miroirs ... (in French). Carilian-Goeury. 1840.
• A collection of small society plays and dramas, Rodolphe de Vart, Christine à Fontainebleau, etc.[10]

Honours

Knight of the French Legion of Honour.[4]

Legacy

• A street is named after him in Toulon. (43°08′18″N 5°54′27″E)[13]

References

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François Étienne Victor de Clinchamp (né à Toulon en 1787 et mort à Paris le 22 septembre 1880) est un peintre français.

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