Jean-Jacques Champin

Jean-Jacques Champin </strong> (1796-1860) was a French painter, watercolorist and lithographer. He was the son of Pierre Champin, a painter and engraver. Jean-Jacques is perhaps best remembered for his lithographs of French scenery, producing "Habitations des personages les plus celebres de la France depuis 1790 jusqu'a nos jours" in 1835 with Auguste Regnier. He also produced lithographs for the "Castelnau Expedition" (French title: "Expedition dans les parties centrales de l'Amerique du Sud"), published between 1850-1859, and worked with various French magazine and newspaper publications. His watercolors and lithographs were exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1819 and 1859.

Lithography was a relatively new process when Champin was a young man, having been invented around 1796. He became fascinated with the process after he moved to Paris in 1815.