Alexandre-Marie Colin

Presumably a self-portrait of Colin

Photograph of Colin at a later age

Alexandre-Marie Colin, a French painter of historical and genre subjects, was born in Paris in 1798. He was a pupil of Girodet. His religious and historical paintings are characterised by a style based on a careful study of the old masters, while his genre pieces are vigorous and lifelike. Amongst these latter may be noticed his 'French Fish-Market' (1832) in the Berlin Gallery, and his 'Gipsies Resting.' Amongst the former may be named a 'Christopher Columbus,' a 'Flight into Egypt,' and an 'Assumption of the Virgin.' He died in 1875.

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  Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington, now in the Ashmolean Museum

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  Othello and Desdemona, 1829

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  Portrait of Théodore Géricault, 1816

References

This article incorporates text from the article "COLIN, Alexandre Marie" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.