Courcy Frédéric (de) was a painter, born Alexandre-Frédéric Charlot de Courcy in Paris, on 28 March 1832. His father, a writer of light comedies, was also known as Frédéric de Courcy. For the record, the cast of one of his plays, Le courrier de la malle (The mail coach agent, written with M. de Rougemont and C. Dupeuty and published in 1832) featured Henry Monnier (1799 – 1877), an actor and playwright, but also a renowed artist in the heyday of nineteenth century French book illustration… Read full article on Frédéric de Courcy »

Job-Vernet Léon – He was a painter, a pastellist and a lithographer born in Paris on 11 May 1830. He studied painting with Léon Cogniet (1764-1880) – who also taught Messonnier, Rosa Bonheur, Charbonnel… – and he was admitted at the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School Of Fine Arts) on 2 October 1844. Although he seemed to be travelling a lot and at some point to even divide his life between France and the United States, he managed to exhibit at the Paris Salon in 1849, 1850, 1853, 1857, 1859, 1868, 1869 and 1870.

In 1857 however, the year he probably did his series of drawings for… Read full article on Léon Job-Vernet »