Ange-Louis Janet

Ange-Louis Janet (16 November 1811 – 25 November 1872) also known under the pseudonym Janet-Lange, was a French painter, illustrator, lithographer and engraver.

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.

Janet died in Paris on 25 November 1872.

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).

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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