Jean-Baptiste Soleil Jean-Baptiste Soleil </div>Jean-Baptiste François Soleil (1798–1878) was a French optician and engineer. In 1819, Soleil founded an eponymous company at 23 Passage Vivienne in Paris, specialised in making optics instruments for such notable researchers as Fresnel, Arago, Foucault and Babinet. In 1825 he moved business to 21, rue de l'Odéon . In 1843, he made a heliostat for Jean Thiébault Silbermann. In 1849, the business was split between to divisions under his son Henri Soleil, and his son-in-law Jules Duboscq. The Soleil division went on under Laurent Soleil, and has now been renamed to Jobin Yvon. The Duboscq division was
Coucher de soleil no. 1 63.8 cm with a similar radiating sun above the bathers. (2) The brushstrokes are smaller in size consistent with Metzinger's style of late 1905. (3) In 1906 and 1907 Metzinger's brushstrokes became larger and more organized, structured within a highly geometrized framework already proto-Cubist in appearance. (4) As its name implies, "Coucher de soleil no. 1" might have been the first in a series of sunsets. Though no other works by Metzinger are known by the titles "Coucher de soleil no. 2" or "No. 3", the artist did produce other works with sunsets during the same period: "Landscape with Fountain",