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Paul Jean Marie Sain (1853-1908) 1901 French Portrait of Chincholle. Really great original oil on Canvas. The man in the portrait resembles a French author named Charles Chincholle who died of a stroke in 1902. Hopefully I'll have more info at a later date. 16" x 19" framed, 11" x 14" canvas. No restorations, clean frame, clean painting other than two small scuffs one to the left of the top of his head, another just above it to the right of the signature. Below are the Biographies of both the artist and Charles Chincholle. One thing they have in common is They were both at one point named knights of the Legion of Honor. Charles Chincholle was appointed the year this painted was done, a year before his death. I've found a few portraits of him online and it looks like him to me.
Jean-Paul Marie Saïn (5 December 1853, Avignon - 6 March 1908, Avignon) was a French painter, known primarily for landscapes and portraits.
Paul Jean Marie Sain studied under noted Academic painters Jean Leon Gerome and Charles Michel Guilbert d'Anelle. Sain made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1879. His paintings of marine scenes and lush romantic landscapes were well received and he was awarded honorable mention in 1883, a third place medal in 1886, a bronze medal in 1889 and in 1900 at the Paris Exposition Universelle. He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1895. His works are in the collection of the Musee du Louvre, Paris, Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, Musee de Perpignan and the Alencon Fine Art Museum.
Charles Henri Hippolyte Chincholle , born on July 16, 1843 in Amiens 1 and died onAugust 26, 1902in Paris , is a French journalist and writer .
He is considered to be the first major French reporter.
Biography
Son of Barthélémy Hyppolite Chincholle and Pélagie Victoire Aimée Quequet, Charles Chincholle was declared by his father under the first names of Henri Charles Hippolyte 4 , 5 . He began studying medicine, which he left quite quickly.
Last secretary of Alexandre Dumas from 1865 to 1870 6 , Chincholle wrote in the newspapers founded by the latter such as Le Mousquetaire or Le D'Artagnan , as well as the Parlement , la Liberté , Paris-Journal , before entering, in 1872, at Villemessant 7 au Figaro where he became one of the main reporters, following all the important public events and signing some of his articles under the pseudonym of Henri Hamoise 8 or Georges Rip 7 . He thus follows the Boulangist campaignand let himself be seduced for a time by the personality of General Boulanger , of whom he became the unofficial memorialist. However, when the latter was installed in Jersey, Chincholle wanted to see him and was not received. Therefore, it burned down what he loved, and we could read, under his signature, the phrase: "I leave the Boulangism as it leaves a bad love 9 . "
Founder of several newspapers such as Le Lucifer , which only saw a few issues 10 and L'Estampe, artistic journal (1884-?) 11 , being a great fan of engravings, he was also president of the Cercle de l'escrime. We owe him numerous interviews with celebrities such as Paul Verlaine and Auguste Rodin . In addition to his countless reportage and current affairs articles and despite his active life and his almost daily collaboration with Le Figaro , Chincholle has written a dozen novels, including La Juive du Château-Trompette published under the name of Ponson du Terrail , serialized in the Little Bordelais, in 1871 12 , eight plays, five or six volumes of contemporary history or biography, and a number of short stories, fantasies and varieties 7 . In 1870, he had a very cheerful little act performed at the Folies-Dramatiques , Uncle Margottin , which had more than three hundred performances. He then praised the theater's new order to give a drama of it, the husband of Joan , black drama that ended with the of the wife and the lover 10 . One fine day, passers-by stopped, bewildered, in front of his poster which read "Free entry for adulterous women." »The story does not say if there were many of them at the control.9 .
Entered the Société des gens de lettres in 1885, he made eleven years on the Committee, and has successively served as secretary, Quaestor and Vice President 7 . He had also succeeded Aurélien Scholl as president of the Cercle de l'Escrime et des Arts 13 . In 1901, he was appointed knight of the Legion of Honor 14 . He succumbed to a stroke the following year 15 . He is buried in the cemetery of Cergy 7 : 175 .
