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Louis Gervais Marvy , born the in Jouy-en-Josas and died on In Paris, is a French landscape and engraver.
He began as a painter on textiles at the canvas factory in Jouy-en-Josas, then worked as a designer in a Parisian commercial house. He devoted himself entirely to art from 1838, and learned of engraving from Eugène Nyon. Practicing the techniques of etching then that, fallen into disrepair, of the soft varnish (which he rehabilitated), he became a renowned aquorm, having the reputation of being a fine engraver and a refined colorist [ 2 ] .
The content of his production attests to his clear predilection for landscape subjects. He regularly exhibited his etchings at the Paris painting fair from 1842 to 1848. He published the albums of landscapes drawn during his trips. He was the illustrator of many books (notably the tales of Perrault) and also drew for newspapers, mainly The artist And The picturesque store .
In addition to his personal production, Marvy looked into the works of many other artists. Do not stick to the repertoire of his contemporaries (notably landscapers Jules Dupré, Théodore Rousseau, Charles Le Roux, Diaz, Louis-Nicolas Cabat and Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps), He was also one of the first engravers to reproduce the paintings of the great ancient masters in plates (in particular the integral of Rembrandt’s works) to distribute them to the public. [Ref. necessary]
Forced to take refuge in London during the unrest in 1848, Marvy was welcomed and helped by the British novelist Thackeray, of which he had been the workshop comrade when the latter had started artistic studies in Paris in 1832 [ 3 ] . Thackeray found him work at the famous satirical newspaper Vanity Fair and introduced him to Sir Thomas Baring, whose prestigious collection of works by the great English landscape masters. Thackeray also wrote the explanatory notices of the collection bringing together these reproductions, published under the title of Sketches after English Landscape Painters (London, 1850).
Louis Marvy was a personal friend of Eugène Delacroix and Paul Gavarni. He was the master of Léo Drouyn and also had for students Léon Villevieille and Adolphe Riffault. Disappeared prematurely, he was buried in the Montmartre cemetery.
- Camille Leynadier, History of peoples and revolutions of Europe from 1789 to the present day , volume fourth, forty engravings on steel by Th. Guérin, Eugène Leguay and Louis Marvy, Henri Morel publisher, Paris, 1847.
- Exact birth and death dates given by its epitaph noted in the Montmartre cemetery and published in the Bulletin of the Society of French Art History , 1878, p.146.
- Paris Review , 1850, p.208.
There is a more detailed praise in an art review published by the review The artist , 1845, p.221: “Like all the artists of a frank look without concern for schools, who only rely on their own forces, Mr. Louis Marvy does not meet indifferent. The spirits of another age, those who see in engraving only a game of patience, do not want to understand it; We who walk with our time, we applaud all those who bring something new and unexpected in the world of art. Mr. Louis Marvy is a landscaper full of fire and color who, above all, seeks the effect ”. - (in) John Camden Hotten, Thackeray the humourist and the man of letters , 1864, p.32-33.
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- Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie and Louis Auvray, General dictionary of artists of the French school from the origin of the drawing arts to the present day , Paris, Librairie Renouard, 1885, volume 2, p. 44.
- François-Xavier de Feller & continuators, Universal biography of men who have made a name for themselves , Lyon-Paris, 1867 edition, volume 5, p. 696.
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