painted Finstermunz Pass in Tyrol in 1830  Related Paintings of Karl Edaurd Biermann :. | comtesse de Segur | Diana and Actaeon | Genes (mk11) | Portrait of the Infante Gabriel of Spain | motiv fran sundbyberg |
Related Artists:
Bernhard Gutmann
German (Resident in U.S) 1869-1936
Joseph Haunzinger
Josef Hauzinger: Marie Antoinette, Erzherzog Maximilian und Ludwig XVI., Ol auf Leinwand, um 1776
VARIN, Quentin
French Painter, ca.1570-1634 French painter. He was the son of a shoemaker and from 1597 to 1600 was in the papal territory of Avignon, where he worked with a local painter, Pierre Duplan ( fl late 16th century), enrolling also in the local painters' guild. By 1607 he had returned to northern France, and he was married that year at Amiens. In 1612 he was working in the Norman village of Les Andelys, and there he became Nicolas Poussin's first master. For the Gothic church of Notre-Dame, Le Grand Andely, he produced in 1612 a Martyrdom of St Vincent, a Martyrdom of St Clarus and a Regina Coeli (all in situ), the works that provided Poussin with his first contact with contemporary painting. These are the earliest fixed points in Varin's oeuvre, although a ruined Rock of the Philosophers (Rouen, Mus. B.-A.), reminiscent of such late 16th-century French Mannerist painters as Antoine Caron,