Constant Dutilleux

{{short description|French painter}}

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| name = Constant Dutilleux

| image = PSdutilleux.jpg

| caption = Self portrait
(Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras)

| birth_name = Henri-Joseph-Constant Dutilleux

| birth_date = 5 October 1807

| birth_place = Douai, France

| death_date = 21 October 1865

| death_place = Paris, France

| field = Painting, illustrating, engraving

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Constant Dutilleux (5 October 1807 - 21 October 1865) was a 19th-century French painter, illustrator and engraver. He was the great-grandfather of the composer Henri Dutilleux.{{cite book |last1=Potter |first1=Caroline |title=Henri Dutilleux: His Life and Works |date=1997 |publisher=Ashgate |location=Aldershot Brookfield (Vt.) |isbn=1859283306 |page=1}}

Dutilleux preferred landscape paintings. He was mainly influenced by Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Works on public display

In 2006, his works toured France as part of an exhibition on Constant Dutilleux, {{ill|Alfred Robaut|fr}} and Eugène Delacroix.{{cite web | url=http://www.evene.fr/culture/agenda/constant-dutilleux-alfred-robaut-eugene-delacroix-7742.php | title=Une affaire de famille | publisher=www.evene.fr | accessdate=January 23, 2012}}

  • Hêtraie dans la forêt de Fontainebleau, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
  • Le peintre Désiré Dubois peignant en plein air, (oil on canvas) Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras

{{gallery

|File:Constant Dutilleux - rue de Crambioux.jpg

|Vue de la rue de Crambious, près de Fleurbaix (private collection)

|File:Constant Dutilleux - bord de Scarpe.jpg

|Bord de Scarpe (1860), Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Arras

|File:Constant Dutilleux - Effet de neige.jpg

| Effects of Snow (1865), Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai

|File:PSdutilleux6526.jpg

| Path in the Forest, Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Arras

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References

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Further reading

  • {{cite book |editor=Marie Paule Botte |title=Constant Dutilleux, 1807-1865 : peintures, dessins: Musée d'Arras, Musée de Douai, 13 décembre 1992-15 mars 1993 |publisher=Edition Muse & Art |language=French}}
  • {{cite book | title=Constant Dutilleux 1807-1865 : commémoration du centenaire de la mort de l'artiste : août–novembre 1965 |author=Musée des beaux-arts (Arras) |publisher=le Musée (Impr. centrale de l'Artois) |location=Arras |date=1965 |language=French}}
  • {{cite book |author=Claude Richebé |title=Constant Dutilleux, 1807-1865 - D'Arras à Barbizon |publisher=Somogy (Editions D'art |location=Paris |date=2003 |isbn=2-85056-622-5 |language=French}}

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Category:19th-century French engravers

Category:French engravers

Category:19th-century French painters

Category:French male painters

Category:19th-century French male artists

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