Jean Arcelin is a French and Swiss painter born in Paris in June 1962. He studied at Charpentier, a licensed art history school at the Sorbonne,[1] where he developed an interest in seventeenth and eighteenth century painting. His paintings incorporate elements of false realism and figurative art, as well as some remote elements of Baroque. He created paintings on order for several major companies including Ebel watches (1990), Dom Ruinart Champagne (1992), or Natixis Bank (2000) and has exhibited exhibited regularly in France, Switzerland and the US since 1990. He lives and teaches painting in Paris. He is referenced in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists (Gründ Editions, 2006) as well as in the Delarge dictionary of Arts (French: Dictionnaire des Arts Plastiques Modernes et Contemporains).
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