Maurice Buchin (1818-1893)

Maurice Buchin (1818-1893) Landscape of the Jura Oil on canvas 38x49cm (rentoilée, old restorations) Born in Conliège in 1818, died in Courbouson (Jura), June 2, 1893. Maurice Buchin was the pupil of Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Hesse (1806-1879). Coming from a family of bourgeois jurists from Lédon, son of Claude Etienne Buchin, justice of the peace, and Anne Hyacinthe Damet, related to the Lorains. A schoolboy at Lons-le-Saunier, a student at the Beaux-Arts in Besançon and in Paris, he was Assistant Curator of the Municipal Museum of Lons-le-Saunier since 1857, he is a resident member of the capital (1852-1875) of the Jura emulation society. Bibliography: Dictionary of Artists and Art Workers of Franche-Comté Abbé Paul Brune, 1912