Jules Lion
Jules Lion (c. 1806–1866) was a photographer, lithographer, and pastel painter born in Paris,[1][2] who exhibited at the Paris Salon[3] before emigrating to the United States in 1837. He eventually opened a daguerreotype studio in New Orleans in 1840,[4] one year after the invention of the process.[4] On March 14, 1840, the New Orleans Bee published a notice about an exhibition of Lion's daguerreotypes at the St. Charles Museum, the first documented photography exhibition in Louisiana.[3] Lion "became one of the first in America to draw a lithograph directly from a daguerreotype."[5][page needed]
While Lion, is listed as a free man of color in six commercial city directories, all other documents civic, legal, and in newspapers and the diocese omit any racial designation which was odd for 19th-century New Orleans.[6] He introduced "the process", also painted, and his main focus was a series of lithographed portraits of prominent Louisianans and people connected to Louisiana history, including John James Audubon and Andrew Jackson.[7] His most notable work is a pastel depicting the "first painting known to American art history in which a white man openly displays affection for his black child."[8][9] Lion taught art at the Louisiana College and, late in his life, created lithographed Confederate sheet music covers.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Jules Lion". Amoeblog. February 28, 2009. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009.
- ↑ Consistoire de Paris, 1809-1910 Census, 22. See Picard 2017, note 30
- 1 2 3 "Jules Lion". Collections. Louisiana State Museum. November 17, 2015. Archived from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
- 1 2 Jones, Malcolm (April 24, 2000). "Black On Black". Newsweek. Retrieved July 16, 2008.
- ↑ Picard, Sara (2016). "An Oblique View of New Orleans's St. Louis Cathedral". In Fowler, Cynthia (ed.). Locating American Art: Finding Art's Meaning in Museums, Colonial Period to the Present. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. pp. 201–214. ISBN 978-1-4724-6799-7.
- ↑ Picard, Sara (2017). "Racing Jules Lion". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 58 (1): 5–37. JSTOR 26290881.
- ↑ Picard, Sara (2016). "Facing Jules Lion: Portraits of Louisiana's Distinguished Men,". IMPRINT, Journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Society. 41 (2): 17–34.
- ↑ Glueck, Grace (July 2, 1976). "Art People". New York Times.
- ↑ "Double portrait of two men, possibly father and son". The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Further reading
[edit]- Brady, Patricia (February 7, 2014) [January 31, 2011]. "Jules Lion". In Johnson, David (ed.). KnowLA Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on April 7, 2016.
- Perry, Regenia A. (1976). Selections of nineteenth-century Afro-American Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. OCLC 1365885904. – Exhibition catalog from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Jules Lion, who at that time was thought to have been Black
- Maccash, Doug (June 2, 2022). "Race, paternity, identity and $704,000 – the story of Louisiana's 'most intriguing painting'". Nola.com.
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