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Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart, also known as Jules Jacquemart, born on September 7, 1837 in Paris, and died in the same city on September 26, 1880, was a French engraver, watercolorist and illustrator, particularly known for his etchings. Jules Jacquemart was the son of Albert Jacquemart (1808-1875), an office manager at the Ministry of Finance, art collector and art historian. Jules was trained in etching at a young age by his father, an amateur artist, and went on to produce both reproductive and original prints. In 1862 Jacquemart was one of the founding members of the Société des Aquafortistes who, at the instigation of the publisher, Alfred Cadart, made the systematic distribution of prints their main objective. From 1859 until his death, he was a regular contributor to the Gazette des beaux-arts. In 1879, Jules Jacquemart was one of the founding members of the Society of French Watercolorists with, among others, Eugène Lami, Gustave Doré, Eugène Isabey. At the first exhibition organized by the Society on rue Laffitte in Paris at Durand-Ruel, he exhibited nine works, including Les platanes en hiver. Like many other illustrators, Jules Jacquemart experienced the arrival of photography. According to Sylvie Aubenas and Marc Smith, he was one of its most determined opponents because an ever greater precision is required of engravers in lithography or even etching; it is photography that forces them to emulate each other, the results of which are often admirable and of which the aquafortist Jules Jacquemart, sworn adversary and almost forcible emulator of photography, offers the most spectacular example. Jules Jacquemart was one of the first promoters and collectors of Japanese prints, along with the painter James Tissot and the curator of the Louvre Museum Villot. He was part of the Japanese movement. With Philippe Burty, Henri Fantin-Latour and Félix Bracquemond, he formed a society to study Japanese art and culture. The collector Jules Jacquemart owned a large number of works and objects. His estate was the subject of an auction held in Paris at the Hôtel Drouot from April 4 to 8, 1881. The sale catalog describes the works of Jacquemart offered for sale, as well as the paintings, objets d'art and furniture he owned. The catalog contains 760 references. His own works include 21 watercolors, 8 gouaches, 55 pen, pencil and charcoal drawings, 136 prints and 7 framed engravings. The works that he or his father collected are paintings (Giuseppe De Nittis, Antoine Vollon...), oriental bronzes and coppers: Chang cup, Chinese sacred vase, Indian bronze representing a sacred ox carrying an edifice, gilded bronze sage, enamels, weapons, Chinese porcelains, Sèvres porcelain, goldsmiths, precious materials, ivory carvings, wood carvings, lacquers, mirrors, European furniture, furniture from the East, fabrics, carpets, Indian miniatures, prints by various artists, framed engravings. Jules Jacquemart left a double and contrasted work. On the one hand, he was a recognized engraver, acclaimed by critics and the public, and on the other hand, he was a watercolorist. The engraver drew art objects to illustrate, before the existence of photography, works of art or history or articles in the Gazette des Arts. As a painter he produced a more personal work, of creator. He painted his watercolors mainly in his house in Menton.