Printed: 2024-05-08
de Lalaing, Jacques (Count)
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Person (Male)
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- Amateur
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Life dates
London [GB], 1858 - Brussels, 1917
Activity
1885 ca - 1900 ca Bruxelles
Jacques Edouard Henri, ° 4.11.1858; + 10.10.1917. Academic painter and monumental sculptor who in particular enjoyed success with public commissions. Member of the "Cercle Artistique et Littéraire", Brussels. Commander of the Order of Leopold. de Lalaing was a fervent user of photography, incorporating it routinely in the preparatory stages of his artistic work. He deployed his studio as a backdrop for staging creative studies with live models and mannequins. More research is needed to establish to what extent de Lalaing acted as his own photographer as well as master of ceremonies. A biographer has written that de Lalaing "... took photographs of the characters who posed for him. There was never any professed artistic intention. His only aim was to record poses" (Catherine Leclercq, Jacques de Lalaing, artiste et homme du monde (1858-1917), Brussels, 2006, p. 229). He is on record as having employed professional photographers Alexandre [Drains] and Adrien Louvois on specific commissions. The Photography Museum, Antwerp, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris [F] and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam [NL] all have holdings of prints originating from de Lalaing’s studio.
Jacques Edouard Henri, ° 4.11.1858; + 10.10.1917. Academic painter and monumental sculptor who in particular enjoyed success with public commissions. Member of the "Cercle Artistique et Littéraire", Brussels. Commander of the Order of Leopold. de Lalaing was a fervent user of photography, incorporating it routinely in the preparatory stages of his artistic work. He deployed his studio as a backdrop for staging creative studies with live models and mannequins. More research is needed to establish to what extent de Lalaing acted as his own photographer as well as master of ceremonies. A biographer has written that de Lalaing "... took photographs of the characters who posed for him. There was never any professed artistic intention. His only aim was to record poses" (Catherine Leclercq, Jacques de Lalaing, artiste et homme du monde (1858-1917), Brussels, 2006, p. 229). He is on record as having employed professional photographers Alexandre [Drains] and Adrien Louvois on specific commissions. The Photography Museum, Antwerp, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris [F] and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam [NL] all have holdings of prints originating from de Lalaing’s studio.
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1885 ca - 1900 ca Bruxelles
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Bibliography/Webography
BOOM, Mattie. "Scènes uit een laat 19de-eeuws atelier. Het modellealbum van comte Jacques de Lalaing", Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, vol. 52 no. 1, 2004, p. 75.
DAVID, Michel F., DELREZ, Anne & ROSSION, Adeline. En dilettante. Histoire et petites histoires de la photographie amateur. Charleroi & Tavier, 2022, 426 + (i) pp: "Portrait de l’artiste en photographe amateur. L’exemple d’Émile Fabry, d’Henri Evenepoel et de Jacques de Lalaing", pp. 203-245.
DAVID, Michel F., DELREZ, Anne & ROSSION, Adeline. En dilettante. Histoire et petites histoires de la photographie amateur. Charleroi & Tavier, 2022, 426 + (i) pp: "Portrait de l’artiste en photographe amateur. L’exemple d’Émile Fabry, d’Henri Evenepoel et de Jacques de Lalaing", pp. 203-245.
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DIRECTORY_2017#2535
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 11.2.2023; SFJ revised 22.12.2023; SFJ revised 16.3.2024 based on information supplied by Pool Andries