House.
Artist: Jean Jacottet (Swiss, 1806-1880).
Media: Lithograph.
Size: 19x25 cms.
With passepartous.
Condition: some foxing.
Jean-Louis Jacottet (1806, Enchallens 1880, Paris) was a Swiss-born landscape painter and lithographer. He moved to Paris early in his career, where he studied the art of painting. After becoming a French citizen, he took part in the Salon de Paris in 1827 and 1839, as well in various other international exhibitions. He was part of theExposition Universellein 1855. His work is kept in 12 volumes in the National Library of France, in the departmentCabinet des Estampes, in Paris. Among his works as both a landscape painter and a lithographer, are views of Montmartre, Lyon, Nantes Isere, as well as of the Pyrenees, the city of Baden-Baden (1840), Switzerland, Italy, North America and multiple works on Paris. Out of the numerous series that he illustrated, noteworthy are: Voyage pittor. Etc. dans l'anc. France" (1820); Ittinéraire pittor. du fleuve Hudson et des parties latérales de l'Amérique du Nord" (1828/29); Voyage pittoresque en Bretagne"; Promenade dans Paris et ses environs" (1838/43); Les Bords du Rhin" (1831). He has been known for devoting great attention to detail in the rendering of landscapes, as well as less attention to the figures sometimes present in his various views, which were often commissioned to other artists (as was the case with the series of views of Baden-Baden, where Adolphe Bayot was responsible for depicting the figures in Jacottet's landscape drawings). Jacottet was author of various works related to the teaching of landscape drawing