Emile Frederic Nicolle

Émile Frédéric Nicolle , (Rouen March 1, 1830 - Saint-Valery-en-Caux August 15, 1894)

Émile Frédéric Nicolle is a French engraver and painter.

Painter of seascapes, landscapes and still lifes as well as engraver of local village scenes.

After continuing his studies at the Pierre Corneille high school in Rouen.

Émile Nicolle worked as a shipbroker in Le Havre and Rouen. Nicolle was able to use his business success to his artistic talents.
Living in Rouen in 1876, Nicolle loved to paint the ports where he worked as well as the regional landscapes which were his favourite subjects.
However, he enjoyed painting the beaches and cliffs in the St Valery en Caux region where Nicolle spent the last years of her life.
Émile Frédéric Nicolle began exhibiting in Rouen from 1864.

Nicolle also played a major role in art as the maternal grandfather of the painter, sculptor and author Marcel DUCHAMP, the cubist painter and engraver Jacques VILLON, the sculptor Raymond DUCHAM-VILLON and the painter Suzanne DUCHAMP. While they were still young, Nicolle gave them artistic training and paid for part of their studies.

In 1886, he was one of the founding members of the Society of Friends of Rouen Monuments.

Almost all of Nicolle's paintings are now the property of the Rouen museum because he did not sell them, keeping them or giving them to his family, friends or professional relations.

He nevertheless made drawings and engravings intended for copying and publication. We owe him a whole series of engravings of old Rouen and Norman landscapes. In 1931, Jacques Villon, his grandson, sold 129 engraved copperplates by his grandfather to the chalcography department of the Louvre Museum.

Museum: Rouen Museum of Fine Arts

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