Jean-Charles Cazin

Jean-Charles Cazin (25 May 1840 – 17 March 1901) was a French landscapist, museum curator and ceramicist.

The son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin (1788–1864), he was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais.

His chief earlier pictures have a religious interest, shown in such examples as The Flight into Egypt (1877), or Hagar and Ishmael (1880, Luxembourg); and afterwards his combination of luminous landscape with figure-subjects (Souvenir de fête, 1881; Journée faite, 1888) gave him a wide repute, and made him the leader of a new school of idealistic subject-painting in France.

His charming and poetical treatment of landscape, and especially seascape, is the feature in his tonalism painting which in later years has given them an increasing value among connoisseurs.

[2] In 1885–86 he posed for the figure of Eustache de Saint-Pierre in the bronze group The Burghers of Calais by his friend, Auguste Rodin.