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JULES VERNE

1828 - 1905

Jules Verne is a French writer whose work is, for the most part, made up of adventure novels evoking scientific progress in the 19th century.

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2019 | Acrylic and oil on linen | 162 x 130 cm | Private collection

Jules Verne

Suspended airplane model: inspired by a model from the Jules Verne Museum in Amiens (France).

"Terrestrial globe and elephant": inspired by its globe (Jules Verne Museum in Nantes. France) and the elephant recalls the novel ‘The Steam House' and the mechanical elephant.

"Invitation": Jules Verne frequented a bachelor club called the 'Eleven Without a Woman', inspired by a real invitation.

Model = Inspired by two known photographs of Jules Verne, 1878 and 1909.

"Puppet": inspired by a puppet from the Teatro Gianduja in Turin for the show Della Terra alla Luna around 1876 (Museum of Amiens. France).

"Library": Jules Verne liked to read the novels of Walter Scott, George Sand, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Shakespeare, and the book of Joseph Bertrand. Some of these authors are part of Captain Némo's library. The first copy of the pile is inspired by the first edition of the novel ‘Michel Strogoff '.

"Revolver bullet": on March 9, 1886, Jules Verne's nephew, Gaston, suffering from madness and armed with a revolver, shot his uncle and hit him in the leg. This ball can never be extracted, and Jules Verne will limp the rest of his life.

"Letter": inspired by the first letter from Jules Verne written on March 30, 1836 to his aunt Madame de Chateaubourg (Museum of Nantes).

"Dice and playing card": inspired by the board games ‘A trip to the bottom of the sea’ by Saussine around 1900 (Museum of Amiens).

Universe inspired by illustrations by Édouard Riou and Alphonse de Neuville for the novel "Twenty thousand leagues under sea".

"Compass and compass": inspired by his personal belongings and by Captain Némo's kit made by Mickaël Ourghanlian (Musée de Nantes).

"Visiting card": inspired by one of the visiting cards of Jules Verne and his wife, framed at the Museum of Amiens.

On Jules Verne's hand there are 2 symbols, an anchor and a helm, as well as the letters H for his wife Honorine and the letter M for his son Michel.

"The writings": inspired by his own writings for the novel ‘Around the Moon '(Jules Verne Museum in Nantes)

The moon is taken from a film called "A trip to the Moon" directed by George Méliès in 1902, inspired, among other things, from the novel‘ From Earth to the Moon ’.

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