L’Arc de Triomphe

[Paris, circa 1950].
Gouache on board (300 x 390 mm) — (190 x 190 mm without margins). Studio stamp on verso and signature of the artist.
Original gouache drawing, depicting a three-quarter view of the Arc de Triomphe against a pink sky.

It was at the age of ten that Jean Jacquelin discovered, with wonder, Eugène Vavasseur’s Ripolin posters. Born in Paris, he entered the École supérieure de dessin Germain Pilon in 1920, then joined the advertising agency TAP (Travaux artistiques de publicité) as a draughtsman.

Artistic director of the Step agency from 1929, he produced numerous film posters from 1940 onward while continuing his work as a commercial artist for a wide range of sectors: automobiles (Peugeot, Delage, Simca, Buick, Fiat), energy (Antar, Esso, Shell), the press and publishing (Paris-Soir, L’Intransigeant, Éditions Froissart, Presses de la Cité), fashion (Scandale, Magasin Le Printemps), retail (Coop, Vittel, Brandt, Champagne Mercier), and tourism, travel and leisure (Air France, SNCF, Aéropostale, Compagnie Transatlantique, Les Châteaux de la Loire, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Semaine du cinéma, Casino d’Enghien).

He is best known as the illustrator of the dust jackets for Georges Simenon’s novels published by Presses de la Cité — some thirty original compositions from the 1950s, executed under the novelist’s supervision and with his approval.

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