page_title: Auguste-Joseph Herlin
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Auguste-Joseph Herlin / Life
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Battage de colza dans la plaine de Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (Nord).
context_page_description: Auguste-Joseph Herlin was a French genre painter from Lille.
context_section_description: Auguste-Joseph Herlin was born in Lille on 18 August 1815.
  His parents were Joseph Herlin and Julie Desrousseaux, both from Lille.
  His father was a merchant. After completing his studies at the local college he joined his father's business. He and his brother Théodore jointly managed the business.
  Between 1840 and 1848 he followed his marked penchant for the arts, and studied painting under François Souchon.
  He won two medals, including a first class medal in 1843.
  In 1850 Herlin resigned from business and devoted himself to the arts.
  With independent means, he was not dependent on his work to make a living and could paint what he wanted.
  Herlin's paintings belonged to the school of Édouard Muller. He excelled both in his drawing and his use of color.
  His Visite au confrère, which drew much attention at the Lille Exhibition after it returned from the Salon of Paris, has been called a minor masterpiece.
  For many years Herlin was administrator of the academic schools in Lille and a member of the commissions of the Lille museums of painting and of drawing.
  In 1890 he was conservator of the Lille museum of painting and president of the commission of Lille museums.
  Herlin became a member of the Lille Society of Sciences and Arts in 1883, and became the society's president in 1892.
  In 1891 Herlin was named a knight of the Legion of Honor for his services to the arts.
  Herlin died on 13 December 1900 at the age of 85.
caption: Battage de colza dans la plaine de Lille (Threshing Rapeseed in the plain of Lille, 1861)
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