Claudius Popelin

French painter, enameler, poet, and translator (1825 – 1892)

Claudius Popelin

Gustave Popelin, Portrait de Claudius Popelin (circa 1890), Paris, Musée d'Orsay.

Born| (1825-11-02)November 2, 1825

Paris, France

Died| May 17, 1892(1892-05-17) (aged 66)

Paris, France

Nationality| French
Education| François-Édouard Picot, Ary Scheffer
Known for| Painter, enameler, poet, translator
Spouse| Marie Thérèse Anquetil (m. 1858; her death 1869)
Partner| Mathilde Bonaparte (rumored)
Awards| Legion of Honour

Claudius Popelin, also known as Claudius Popelin-Ducarre[1] (2 November 1825 – 17 May 1892) was a French painter, enameler, poet, and translator.

## Biography[edit]

Studying under François-Édouard Picot and Ary Scheffer, Claudius Marcel Popelin was known for his historical paintings, portraits, and enamels.[2][3]

On 15 April 1858, he married Marie Thérèse Anquetil (1836–1869) in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. They had one child, Gustave Popelin (1859–1937), an artist who won the Grand Prix de Rome. Popelin dedicated two works to his son: his translation of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and his collection of poems.[4]

Popelin was the first to translate, annotate, and comment on the famous work originally printed in 1499: Le Songe de Poliphile was published in French in 1883 by Isidore Liseux.[5]

## Publications[edit]

### Books[edit]

* Popelin, Claudius (1866). L'émail des peintres (in French). A. Lévy.
* L'Art de l'émail, lecture given at the Union centrale des beaux-arts, 6 March 1868.
* Popelin, Claudius (1869). Les Vieux Arts du Feu (in French). A. Lemerre.

### Poetry[edit]

* Sonnets et eaux-fortes, a poem and an etching, 1869
* Un cent de strophes à Pailleron, 1881.
* Histoire d'avant-hier, poem, 1886.
* Un livre de sonnets, 1888.
* Poésies complètes : Strophes et couplets. Hommes et fourmis. Histoire d'avant-hier. Un livre de sonnets, 1889.

### Translations[edit]

* Les Troys Libvres de l'art du potier, esquels se traicte non seulement de la practique, mais briefvement de tous les secretz de ceste chouse, du cav. Cipriano Piccolpasso, 1860.
* De la Statue et de la Peinture, treatises by Leon Battista Alberti, translated from Latin to French by Claudius Popelin, 1868.
* Le Songe de Poliphile, ou Hypnérotomachie by Brother Francesco Colonna, literally translated for the first time, with an introduction and notes, by Claudius Popelin, 2 vol., 1883, Prix Langlois from the Académie française in 1884.

## Distinctions[edit]

* Knight of the Legion of Honour.[6]

## Gallery[edit]

* Gabriel Ferrier, Portrait of Claudius Popelin, 1881, Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs

* Gustave Popelin, Claudius Popelin-Ducarre, seated, painting, photograph, Paris, Musée d'Orsay.

* Portrait of Prince Louis Bonaparte (1890), painted enamel in gold cameo on copper, Paris, Musée d'Orsay.

* Study of flowery wreath and fantastic bird, letter paper with a letterhead of a baron's crown? (between 1870 and 1880), watercolor, Paris, Musée d'Orsay.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Claudius Popelin (35919) | Musée d'Orsay". www.musee-orsay.fr. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
2. ^ "POPELIN, Claudius - Treccani". Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-04-03.
3. ^ "Popelin, Claudius su Enciclopedia". www.sapere.it (in Italian). 2020-06-05. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
4. ^ Poésies complètes : strophes et couplets ; hommes et fourmis ; histoire d'avant-hier ; un livre de sonnets / Claudius Popelin. 1889.
5. ^ Le songe de Poliphile ou Hypnérotomachie de frère Francesco Colonna. Tome 1 / littéralement traduit pour la première fois, avec une introduction et des notes, par Claudius Popelin ; figures sur bois gravées à nouveau par A. Prunaire. 1883.
6. ^ "Recherche - Base de données Léonore". www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2024-04-03.

## Bibliography[edit]

* Falize, Lucien (1893). Claudius Popelin et la renaissance des émaux peints (in French). Gazette des Beaux-Arts
* Bouchaud, Pierre de (1894). Claudius Popelin: peintre, émailleur et poète (in French). A. Lemerre.
* Popelin, Claudius (1875). Cinq octaves de sonnets (in French). A. Lemerre.

## External links[edit]

* "Recherche - Base de données Léonore". www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr.

* "CTHS - POPELIN Claudius Marcel dit POPELIN-DUCARRE". cths.fr.

* "Claudius POPELIN | Académie française". www.academie-francaise.fr.

* Biographie, Deutsche. "Popelin, Claudius Marcel - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German).

* "ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)". www.getty.edu.

* "Popelin, Claudius(-Marcel)". Grove Art Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000068711

* "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org.

* "Popelin, Claudius". agorha.inha.fr.

* "Claudius Popelin". mutualart.com.

* "Claudius Popelin (35919) | Musée d'Orsay". www.musee-orsay.fr.

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