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| Henri Julien | |
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| Born | Octave-Henri Julien (1852-05-14)May 14, 1852 Quebec City, Province of Canada |
| Died | September 17, 1908(1908-09-17) (aged 56) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Henri Julien, baptised Octave-Henri Julien (14 May 1852 – 17 September 1908) was a French Canadian artist and cartoonist noted for his work for the Canadian Illustrated News and for his politcal cartoons in the Montreal Daily Star. He was the first full-time newspaper editorial cartoonist in Canada. His pseudonyms include Octavo and Crincrin.
Personal history and career
Octave-Henri Julien was born in Quebec City on 14 May 1852 to Henri and Zoé Julien and grew up in the Saint-Roch neighbourhood. His father worked as a turner for a mechanical press and his brothers Émile and Télesphore also went on to work in printing. Early influences on the boy include the scupltor Jean-Baptiste Coté, who lived nearby among the artisans of saint-Roche, and the country folk of nearby L'Ange-Gardien who inspired many of Julien's later drawings.
After the elder Julien won work with the Queen's printer George-Paschal Desbarats the family frequently moved as the capital of the Province of Canada moved: Toronto in 1855–59, Quebec City in 1859–65, and Ottawa in 1866–68, where he attended the College of Ottawa. He thereafter moved to Montreal where he apprenticed as an engraver at Leggo and Company, a partnership between William Leggo and George-Édouard Desbarats, where he met cartoonists such as Edward Jump who worked for Desbarats's illustrated magazines Canadian Illustrated News and L'Opinion publique.
Julien cartooned in Desbarats's employ until 1888; during this time he contributed to numerous other publications as well, including Le Canard and Le Violon published by Hector Berthelot, sometimes under pseudonyms such as Octavo and Crincrin. His work included caricatures of politicians and illustrated journalism. In 1874 he accompanied George Arthur French and the North-West Mounted Police on an expedition to the fork of the Bow and Belly Rivers in Alberta; his drawings of the Canadian West appeared in the Canadian Illustrated News]] and L'Opinion publique in 1874–75.
The Montreal Daily Star became the first Canadian newspaper to employ a full-time editorial cartoonist when it contracted Henri Julien in 1888. Julien stayed with the paper for 22 years and built his reputation illustrating historical even and journalistic pieces, as well as drawing caricatures of members of Parliament in the House of Commons in Ottawa. He drew notice in 1897–1900 when he had published a number of caricatures of Wilrid Laurier and his cabinet as blackface minstrels under the title "By-Town Coons". His best known work was of rural French Canadians which he started making about 1875 and continued for the rest of his life. From 1900 he took up painting, particularly commissions for scenes from French Canadian culture. His work was noted for the speed and accuracy with which he drew it.
Julien married Marie-Louise Legault dit Deslauriers (d. 1924) in Montreal on 17 October 1876; of the couple's eighteen children, seven daughters and one son survived into adulthood. Julien died in Montreal on 17 September 1908. At the time he was developing sketches for a parade to celebrate Quebec's 300th anniversary.
A print by Henri Julien of the "Royal Military College of Canada Uniform of Cadets", which appeared in the Canadian Illustrated News is in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. Accession Number: 19850291-004. The gallery L'Art français exhibited his works in 1968.
Gallery
- Works by Henri Julien
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Moving scene, L'Opinion publique, 18 May 1876
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Six Months in the Wilds of the North-West, Canadian Illustrated News, 13 February 1875
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Le Patriote, gouache on brown paper, 1904
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La Chasse-galerie, oil on canvas, 1906
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References
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- Guilbault 1994, pp. 533–534.
- ^ Guilbault 1994, p. 534.
- Spencer 2013, p. 57.
- Guilbault 1994, p. 535.
- http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/bd-dl/artefacts-eng.jsp Artefacts Canada
- Vie des arts, automne 1968, n°52, p. 73, "Galerie L'Art français, 370 ouest, rue Laurier, octobre: H. Julien" http://www.erudit.org/feuilletage/index.html?va1081917.va1201514@84
Works cited
- Guilbault, Nicole (1994). "Julien Henri". In Cook, Ramsay (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 533–535. ISBN 978-0-8020-3998-9.
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Further reading
- Barbeau, Marius (1941). Henri Julien. Ryerson Press.
- Hardy, Dominic (2005). "Henri Julien: Ce diable homme". In Cambron, Micheline (ed.). La vie culturelle à Montréal vers 1900 (in French). Les Editions Fides. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-2-7621-2222-0.
- Karel, David, ed. (1992). "Julien, Octave-Henri (Crincrin)". Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfèvres (in French). Presses Université Laval. p. 425. ISBN 978-2-7637-7235-6.
External links
- [REDACTED] Media related to Henri Julien at Wikimedia Commons
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