Painting By Jean Jean Cornu

Oil on rectangular canvas, with oval view 77 X 68 cm, signed Jean Jean Cornu 1869 in its original frame (restored angles) CORNU Jean-Jean 1819/1876 Jean-Jean CORNU: painter referenced in Bénézit. Born in Chenove (Côte d'Or) in 1819 and died in Chenôve on September 6, 1876. French school. Jean-Jean Cornu is a French landscape painter and illustrator known for his small formats representing the Côte-d'Or. In his palette predominantly acid greens, he mainly painted landscapes in the Jura. Present in the Gray Museums, and the Langres museum has a painting by Jean-Jean Cornu entitled "Les edges du Lizon. The collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon include several of his works and a street in Dijon bears his name. Illustrated works Jean Chaingenai - Armona Borgugnon po 1850, by Jean Chaingenai, winegrower of the Coast, illustrated by Jean-Jean Cornu, de Chenove. Dijon, 1849. Bibliography Monique Geiger, "Jean-Jean Cornu (1819-1876), painter from the Côte-d'Or", Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Fine Letters of Dijon, volume 130, 1989- 1990, p. [211] -224.