DOI Heft:
No. 223 (October 1911)
DOI Artikel:Frantz, Henri: A great french landscape painter: Jean Charles Cazin
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0028
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rather long and thrown back. His fine face with
its Bourbon nose was of the pure French type, and
revealed those traits of energy which in him were
tempered by the extremely mild aspect of his grey
eyes—eyes in which one saw mirrored something of
the dreamer, something spiritual. The memory he
has left behind him is that of a man of great kindli-
ness, who was always well disposed towards young
people and compassionate with those in misfortune.
It seems as though constant contact with nature
had bred in Cazin a very noble character and a
mind incapable of comprehending the little paltry
meannesses which so often irritate and sadden the
lives of artists.
Jean Charles Cazin was born in 1S46 near
Samer in the Pas-de-Calais. He was the son of
a doctor who was held in very high esteem in the
neighbourhood, and who gave his son an excellent
education at the College at Boulogne, after which
the young man took his degree at Lille and then
set out for Paris, where he entered the studio of
Lecocq de Boisboudran, who was also the master
'les Casiu
of Lhermitte and ot Renouard. But it was to
nature herself and not to any teaching whatsoever
that Cazin owed the formation of his artistic vision ;
and the beautiful landscapes of the Pas-de-Calais,
the spectacle of the limitless ocean, the far distant
sweep of the melancholy sand-dunes, the ever-
varied effects of the sky which we find over and
over again in his works, had far more to do in the
development of the artist's talent than any teaching.
Cazin was married at an early age, and it is not
possible to speak of the painter without making
a place beside him for the noble woman who,
herself a great artist, after sharing all her husband's
life of labour, keeps vigil now with all her care
and thought over his artistic reputation and the
glory he has added to his name !
The painter exhibited at the Salons of 1865 and
1866 and was one of those artists of character,
like Courbet and so many others, whose works
a timorous or ignorant jury rejected. However—
and this is a fact to note, for it helps one to
understand better the soul of the artist—Cazin was
l'etang :
6
xuit
by j. c. cazin
rather long and thrown back. His fine face with
its Bourbon nose was of the pure French type, and
revealed those traits of energy which in him were
tempered by the extremely mild aspect of his grey
eyes—eyes in which one saw mirrored something of
the dreamer, something spiritual. The memory he
has left behind him is that of a man of great kindli-
ness, who was always well disposed towards young
people and compassionate with those in misfortune.
It seems as though constant contact with nature
had bred in Cazin a very noble character and a
mind incapable of comprehending the little paltry
meannesses which so often irritate and sadden the
lives of artists.
Jean Charles Cazin was born in 1S46 near
Samer in the Pas-de-Calais. He was the son of
a doctor who was held in very high esteem in the
neighbourhood, and who gave his son an excellent
education at the College at Boulogne, after which
the young man took his degree at Lille and then
set out for Paris, where he entered the studio of
Lecocq de Boisboudran, who was also the master
'les Casiu
of Lhermitte and ot Renouard. But it was to
nature herself and not to any teaching whatsoever
that Cazin owed the formation of his artistic vision ;
and the beautiful landscapes of the Pas-de-Calais,
the spectacle of the limitless ocean, the far distant
sweep of the melancholy sand-dunes, the ever-
varied effects of the sky which we find over and
over again in his works, had far more to do in the
development of the artist's talent than any teaching.
Cazin was married at an early age, and it is not
possible to speak of the painter without making
a place beside him for the noble woman who,
herself a great artist, after sharing all her husband's
life of labour, keeps vigil now with all her care
and thought over his artistic reputation and the
glory he has added to his name !
The painter exhibited at the Salons of 1865 and
1866 and was one of those artists of character,
like Courbet and so many others, whose works
a timorous or ignorant jury rejected. However—
and this is a fact to note, for it helps one to
understand better the soul of the artist—Cazin was
l'etang :
6
xuit
by j. c. cazin