Alfred Delauney

Alfred-Alexandre Delauney (1830–1894) was a French painter and engraver.

Life

Born on 13 July 1830 at Gouville in Normandy, Delauney came to Paris in 1842 at the age of twelve to work as an assistant to an elderly uncle named Salmon, his mother's brother, who was a print-seller. Salmon had a shop at 39, Rue de Seine, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris near the Louvre, called Librairie des Beaux-Arts, which in 1850 he transferred to his nephew.[1][2] Had two children, Marthe, and Jean.

Delauney is considered a notable etcher as well as a painter.[3] Jean-François Millet was one of the artists whose paintings were etched by Delauney, and one such etching, L'Hiver aux corbeaux (1862), has been noted as an inspiration to Vincent Van Gogh.[4] A collection of Delauney's etchings was published in Eaux-Fortes sur le vieux Paris, twenty-four plates dating between 1870 and 1878.[5]

Alfred Delauney married Elise Charlotte-Eulallie Varin, the daughter of Pierre-Amédée Varin (1818–1883), another notable engraver.[5] They had two children, Marthe Delauney, Jean Delauney. He died at Nanteuil-sur-Marne on 25 June 1894.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Annales (Société historique et archéologique de Château-Thierry, 1892), p. 250
  2. ↑ Carl de Vinck de Deux-Orp, Albert Vuaflart, La Place de l'Institut, sa galerie marchande des quatre-nations et ses étalages d'estampes, 1660-1880 (Rousseau, 1928), p. 296: "Devenu vieux, Salmon avait fait venir de Normandie, en 1842, pour l'assister dans son négoce, le fils de sa sœur, Alfred Delauney, alors âgé de douze ans, né à Gouville en 1830. Huit années plus tard, en 1850, il lui cédait ses étalages de l'Institut, ainsi que son magasin de la rue de Seine."
  3. 1 2 Noël Coret, Autour de l'impressionnisme: Les peintres de la vallée de la Marne (Renaissance du livre, 2000), p. 22 : "Alfred-Delauney (Gouville (Manche). 1830-Nanteuil-sur-Marne. 1894) fut aussi un peintre et aquafortiste de grande renommée..."
  4. ↑ L'esprit et les lettres: mélanges offerts à Georges Mailhos (Presses Univ. du Mirail, 1999), p. 117
  5. 1 2 Christine Abelé, Les Varin, une dynastie de graveurs, XVIIIe, XIXe, XXe siècles (Château-Thierry: Musée Jean de La Fontaine, 1987 exhibition catalogue), p. 22: "Eaux-Fortes sur le vieux Paris, 24 planches y compris titre et table, 1870-1878"
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