Antoine Roux Explained

Antoine Roux
Birth Name:	Ange-Joseph Antoine Roux
Birth Date:	1765
Birth Place:	Marseille, France
Death Place:	Marseille, France
Nationality:	French
Field:	Painting, drawing
Movement:	Marine art

Ange-Joseph Antoine Roux, "Antoine Roux" (1765–1835) was a French fine art painter who specialised in maritime painting, sometimes referred to as marine art.

Career

Roux came from a family of artists and primarily worked in Marseille. Early in life he was apprenticed to his father, Joseph Roux (1752–93), a hydrographer as well as an artist in his own right, spending his leisure hours painting and drawing.^{[1] [2]} Antoine died of cholera in Marseille in 1835.

All Antoine's four children followed in his artistic footsteps, with his three sons becoming known for their painting as well: Mathieu-Antoine Roux (1799-1872); François Joseph Frédéric Roux (1805–1870), 'Frédéric', was apprenticed to Horace Vernet; and the third, François Geoffroy Roux (1811–1882), 'François', was appointed in 1876 as an official Peintre de la Marine.^{[3] [4]}

Museum collections

• The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts holds a collection of Roux's works.
• The National Maritime Museum, (NMM), London, England.
• New York Public Library, USS President.^[5]
• The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia
• Musée National de la Marine in Paris, France

Notes and references

Bibliography

• Bres, Louis, A Dynasty of Marine Painters: Antoine Roux and his Sons in Johnson, Alfred, (Transl.), Ships and Shipping: A Collection of Pictures Including Many American Vessels Painted by Antoine Roux and His Sons, Marine Research Society, Pub. Num. 9, Salem MA, 1925.
• Marine Painters of Marseille, Including a Catalogue of the Roux Family Paintings, Peabody Museum, Salem MA, 1978. 73 p., 141 illus., 12 in color.
• Jean Meissonnier, Voiliers de l'Époque romantique, Edita Lausanne, 1991,

External links

• Peabody Essex Museum
• The Mariners' Museum
• National Maritime Museum in London, England
• Musée National de la Marine in Paris, France

Notes and References

1. http://www.pem.org/sites/roux/sketchbooks-100.html The Sketchbooks of Antoine Roux
2. French galley at Marseilles (PAG9744) , National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
3. Meissonnier, p.10
4. Cordingly, David, Ships and Seascapes: An Introduction to Maritime Prints, Drawings and Watercolours, Philip Wilson, 2003, p. 155. .
5. Toll, Ian W., Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy, Frontispiece, 2006. .