Ange-Louis Janet

Ange-Louis Janet (26 November 1815 – 22 November 1872) also known under the pseudonym Janet-Lange, was a French painter, illustrator, lithographer and engraver.

Portrait on the 7 December 1872 issue of Le Monde Illustré

Biography

Born in Paris, Janet was admitted in 1833 at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in the workshops of Ingres, Horace Vernet and Alexandre-Marie Colin. He made his debut at the Salon in 1836 and continued to participate until 1870. He painted hunting scenes, military costumes and portraits[1] and composed paintings retracing episodes of French history, such as the Crimean War from 1853 to 1856,[2] the Second Italian War of Independence (1859) and the Second French intervention in Mexico from 1861 to 1867.

He provided illustrations for newspapers such as L'Illustration, Le Tour du monde, the Journal amusant and the Le Journal pour rire. He also did some book illustration, including for the French edition of G. A. Henty's The Young Franc-Tireurs (1873), Librairie Hachette, Paris. Henty like the illustrations so much that he got electros from the wood blocks and used them to illustrate the story when it was serialised in Union Jack in preference to the illustrations for the English edition.[3]

Janet died in Paris on 22 November 1872 at the age of 61.

References
  1. Georges Touchard-Lafosse, Chroniques de l'Œil-de-Bœuf : des petits appartements de la cour et des salons de Paris sous Louis XIV, la Régence, Louis XV, et Louis XVI, illustrated by Janet-Lange, in Le Panthéon populaire, 17th series, Plon frères, Paris (on line on archive.org).
  2. Histoire de la Guerre d'Orient, illustrated by Janet-Lange, ornée de cartes géographiques by A.-H. Dufour, G.Barba, Paris, 1856 (on line on archive.org).
  3. Newbolt, Peter (1996). "Appendix IV: Illustration and Design: Notes on Artists and Designers: Janet-Lange, Ange Louis, 1816-1872". G.A. Henty, 1832-1902 : a bibliographical study of his British editions, with short accounts of his publishers, illustrators and designers, and notes on production methods used for his books. Brookfield, Vt.: Scholar Press. p. 628. ISBN 9781859282083. Retrieved 2020-05-02.

Bibliography
  • David Karel, Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfèvres, Presses Université Laval, 1992, p. 413 (on line books.google.com).
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