Antoine Paul Gustave Dumoulin (18 September 1827, Paris – 5 July 1859, Paris) was a French painter and caricaturist.
Biography
He was the son of Alexandre-Hippolyte Dumoulin, an accountant, and his wife, Marie-Virginie née Taisand.Archives de Paris, état civil reconstitué, naissances du 18 septembre 1827
As a student of Hippolyte Lazerges, he displayed his early paintings at the Salon. Denied a place there in 1846, he benefitted from the absence of a selection jury in 1848, which was suspended due to the Revolution.Jean-Louis Ferrier, L'Aventure de l'art au XIXe siècle, Hachette/éditions du Chêne, 1991, pg.415
He then presented three works at that Salon: Still-life, Night Effect and Souvenir of Italy.Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture..., Paris, 1848, #1433-1435 In 1850–1851, he exhibited A Market and a Portrait of M. P. D....Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture..., Paris, 1850, #922-923 Shortly before his death, he exhibited a tableau called A Suburb of Lyon, During the .Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, gravure..., Paris, 1859, #953.
He was equally, if not better known as a caricaturist; providing numerous illustrations for , a weekly satirical journal. He designed their logo in 1858.Le Gaulois, 30 May 1858 His fellow staff members included Étienne Carjat, Paul Hadol and Alfred Grévin. One of his caricatures, of the sculptor Jean-Pierre Dantan, includes a caricature of himself, as a statuette.Le Gaulois, 20 June 1858
During that same time, he also worked for the photographer Pierre Petit who, together with Antoine Trinquart (1814–1871), had recently opened a studio called "La Photographie des Deux Mondes".
Overwhelmed by serious financial and family problems, he decided to end his life. To do so, he bought some coal and asphyxiated himself, at home, with smoke from his stove. He could not be revived and died the next morning. Two days later, he was buried at Montmartre Cemetery.Archives de Paris, cimetières parisiens, registres journaliers des inhumations, cimetière de Montmartre, 1859, #3146 (Online).
References
Further reading Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie and Louis Auvray: Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours : architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes, Renouard, 1882 pg.482 (Online @ Gallica) John Grand-Carteret, Les Mœurs et la caricature en France, Paris, Librairie illustrée, 1888, (Online @ Internet Archive). Les Derniers bohêmes : Henri Murger et son temps, Paris, librairie Sartorius, 1874, pgs.36 and 261 (Online @ Gallica). François Solo and Catherine Saint-Martin, Plus de 5000 dessinateurs de presse & 600 supports en France de Daumier à l'an 2000, Aedis, 2004, pg.257
External links
"Dumoulin, Gustave Paul Antoine" @ the Database of Salon Artists (1827–1850)