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JULES FERDINAND JACQUEMART
(b Paris, 3 Sept 1837; d Paris, 26 Sept 1880).
French etcher, illustrator and watercolourist. He received his early training from his father, Albert Jacquemart (1808-75), an amateur artist, botanical illustrator, collector and author. From the outset he distinguished himself with illustrations of various objets d'art. His earliest recorded work is an etching of 1859 showing a selection of Japanese and Chinese artefacts, and with Philippe Burty, Henri Fantin-Latour and Félix Bracquemond, among others, he formed a society to study and promote Japanese culture (see Japonisme). Also in 1859 he entered into an association with the Gazette des beaux-arts that lasted for most of his career. To this periodical he contributed plates illustrating the extraordinary range of objects owned by such notable collectors as Charles, Duc de Morny, Victor, Duc de Luynes, and members of the Rothschild family, as well as those found in the Louvre. In these etchings he proved remarkably adept at rendering reflections and varying textures and colours.
In the process of engraving plates for the Histoire artistique, industrielle et commerciale de la porcelaine (Paris, 1862), written by his father and E. Le Blant, Jacquemart prepared watercolour studies on vellum (e.g. Sèvres Vase, 1862; Baltimore, MD, Walters A.G.). In addition, he produced illustrations for other publications treating 16th-century bookbindings (1864), the ceramics of Valenciennes (1868), treasures of the French crown (1868), the history of ceramics (1873) and American medals (1880). He published etchings reproducing paintings by Old Masters and contemporary artists, the most extensive work in this category being Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (London, 1874). Although he established his reputation as an etcher of works of art, Jacquemart was also an able watercolourist, specializing in landscapes, and in 1879 was a founder-member of the Société des Aquarellistes Français.
See also China, §VII, 3(vii).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
L. Gonse: L'Oeuvre de Jules Jacquemart (Paris, 1876)
H. Beraldi: Les Graveurs du XIXe siècle (Paris, 1885-92), viii, pp. 192-213
Japonisme: Japanese Influence on French Art, 1854-1910 (exh. cat. by G. P. Weisberg and others, Cleveland, Mus. A., 1975)
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