Jean Baptiste Ferdinand Monchablon, known as Jan Monchablon (6 September 1854, Châtillon-sur-Saône – 2 October 1904, Châtillon-sur-Saône) was a French landscape painter.
His dad was an ascribed with the local health department. He began his education at the Collège Notre-Dame in Nantes. In 1875, after keen as a private tutor, he became a Professor in Quimper. Six years later, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Jean-Paul Laurens. From 1883 to 1884, he took additional lessons in the studio of Alexandre Cabanel. Finding himself attracted to the works of the Flemish masters, he took a study vacation to the Netherlands in 1886. It was at that get older he began signing his name “Jan”, instead of “Jean”.
Upon his return, he married Fanny Julien, a pianist he had met even if studying at the École, and they granted to see eye to eye in his hometown, leasing property there and planting a small vineyard to encourage defray expenses. Despite his relatively solitary location, he continued to exhibit regularly at the Salon and won several medals there as capably as at the Exposition Universelle (1900).
He was posthumously admitted to the Legion d’honneur in 1905. Four years later, his buddy Roland Knoedler (an American art dealer), commissioned Antoine Bourdelle to Make a monument in his honor. Unfortunately, it was destroyed during World War II. A replacement was sophisticated created by the sculptor Marcel Joosen (born 1943).
Many of his paintings are in small museums in the United States, including the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California.
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