Jean Morin (artist)


Jean Morin was a French baroque painter, printmaker, painter, etcher, engraver and publisher.

Life

Morin was born and died in Paris. His father Étienne Morin was a master painter who died young. He was married to Marie Oignet who was very likely Flemish. Jean had two sisters: Marie, who never married and Catherine, who in 1631 married the Flemish painter and engraver Matthieu van Plattenberg, called Plattemontagne in France. Van Plattenberg was originally from Antwerp and became a founding member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Their son was the painter Nicolas de Plattemontagne who studied under Morin and Philippe de Champaigne.
Van Plattenberg and Morin worked together on various publications such as a series of landscapes and marine scenes.
Morin likely never married.

Work

His graphic work consists of 118 plates, which are undated and the chronology of which is unknown. Six plates do not have his signature. The works include:
Many of these works were made after paintings of leading artists of the time.

Portraits after Philippe de Champaigne