Léonor Mérimée

{{short description|French painter (1757-1836)}}

{{short description|French painter (1757-1836)}}

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[[File:Леонор Мериме.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Jean-François Léonor Mérimée, portrait by [[Simon Jacques Rochard]] (1828)]]

[[File:Леонор Мериме.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Jean-François Léonor Mérimée, portrait by [[Simon Jacques Rochard]] (1828)]]

[[File:Merimee-Erigone.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|''[[Erigone (daughter of Icarius)|Erigone]] and [[Bacchus]]'']]

[[File:Merimee-Erigone.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|''[[Erigone (daughter of Icarius)|Erigone]] and [[Bacchus]]'']]

While the majority of this book was devoted to pigment analysis, varnishes, materials and the preservation of paintings, Mérimée devoted a chapter to color theory. In this chapter, Mérimée referred to "three simple colours (yellow, red and blue)" and that these can through admixture, produce a large gamut of color nuances. Ünited in pairs, these three primitive colours give birth to three other colours as distinct and brilliant as their originals; thus, yellow mixed with red, gives orange; red and blue, violet, and green is obtained by mixing blue and yellow" (Mérimée, 1839, p245). Mérimée illustrated these color relationships with a simple diagram located between pages 244 and 245: Chromatic Scale (Echelle Chromatique).[[File:Merimee-Chromatic Scale.jpg|thumb|Chromatic Scale (Echelle Chromatique), J. F. L Mérimée (1830, 1839)]]

While the majority of this book was devoted to pigment analysis, varnishes, materials and the preservation of paintings, Mérimée devoted a chapter to color theory. In this chapter, Mérimée referred to "three simple colours (yellow, red and blue)" and that these can through admixture, produce a large gamut of color nuances. Ünited in pairs, these three primitive colours give birth to three other colours as distinct and brilliant as their originals; thus, yellow mixed with red, gives orange; red and blue, violet, and green is obtained by mixing blue and yellow" (Mérimée, 1839, p245). Mérimée illustrated these color relationships with a simple diagram located between pages 244 and 245: Chromatic Scale (Echelle Chromatique).[[File:Merimee-Chromatic Scale.jpg|thumb|Chromatic Scale (Echelle Chromatique), J. F. L Mérimée (1830, 1839)]]

Mérimée died in 1836 in Paris.

Mérimée died in 1836 in Paris.

[[Augustin-Jean Fresnel]], the civil engineer and physicist, was his nephew.

[[Augustin-Jean Fresnel]], the civil engineer and physicist, was his nephew.

[[Category:People from Eure]]

[[Category:People from Eure]]

[[Category:Painters from Normandy]]

[[Category:Painters from Normandy]]

[[Category:18th-century French male artists]]