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In Paris Soehnée studied under the neoclassical painter Anne Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.
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Charles Soehnee
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He was the fourth child of merchant Jacques Frédéric Soehnée and Caroline Wilhelmine (née Krueger). In 1797 his family founded the company "Soehnée l"aîné & Cie". Their factories were located in the cities of Mulhouse, Colmar and Munster in Alsace.
Their headquarters were in Paris where Soehnée eventually moved with his family.
In 1818, he executed more a group of than one hundred drawings, watercolors, and at least one lithograph, most of which depict grotesque scenes of imaginary beasts and travelers against the backdrop of desert landscapes. Soehnée researched and studied the techniques of the old masters, culminating in a technical treatise published in 1822 where he disputed the commonly held belief that January van Eyck invented oil painting.
In it, he argued that the a mixture of encaustic and varnish could be the only explanation for the existence of much older paintings. As far as is known, he never painted again after 1818.
Soehnée possessed a collection of drawings from Baroque painter Joseph Parrocel (1646–1704), which are now owned by the Louvre.
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France