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1798 Paris - 1873. Known for: Figure, genre painting.
Achille-Etna Michallon Colin was a French artist born in Paris in 1798. He was a pupil of Girodet and a close friend of Théodore Gericault and Eugène Delacroix. Colin's painting illustrates a scene... Read full biography
Achille-Etna Michallon Colin was a French artist born in Paris in 1798. He was a pupil of Girodet and a close friend of Théodore Gericault and Eugène Delacroix. Colin's painting illustrates a scene from Jean-Francois Marmontel's novel Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'Empire du Pérou. He embarked... Read full biography
Achille-Etna Michallon Colin was a French artist born in Paris in 1798. He was a pupil of Girodet and a close friend of Théodore Gericault and Eugène Delacroix. Colin's painting illustrates a scene from Jean-Francois Marmontel's novel Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'Empire du Pérou. He embarked on the project of creating illustrations for the book in the 1820s, and the themes explored in the book inspired many works on paper and, in the 1840s, on canvas, including a pair of paintings shown at... Read full biography
Achille-Etna Michallon Colin was a French artist born in Paris in 1798. He was a pupil of Girodet and a close friend of Théodore Gericault and Eugène Delacroix. Colin's painting illustrates a scene from Jean-Francois Marmontel's novel Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'Empire du Pérou. He embarked on the project of creating illustrations for the book in the 1820s, and the themes explored in the book inspired many works on paper and, in the 1840s, on canvas, including a pair of paintings shown at the 1848 Paris Salon.
Achille-Etna Michallon Colin was a French artist born in Paris in 1798. He was a pupil of Girodet and a close friend of Théodore Gericault and Eugène Delacroix. Colin's painting illustrates a scene from Jean-Francois Marmontel's novel Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'Empire du Pérou. He embarked on the project of creating illustrations for the book in the 1820s, and the themes explored in the book inspired many works on paper and, in the 1840s, on canvas, including a pair of paintings shown at the 1848 Paris Salon.
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Achille-Etna Michallon Colin was a French artist born in Paris in 1798. He was a pupil of Girodet and a close friend of Théodore Gericault and Eugène Delacroix. Colin's painting illustrates a scene from Jean-Francois Marmontel's novel Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'Empire du Pérou. He embarked on the project of creating illustrations for the book in the 1820s, and the themes explored in the book inspired many works on paper and, in the 1840s, on canvas, including a pair of paintings shown at the 1848 Paris Salon.