Jean Jouvenet
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Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet (1647 - April 5, 1717) was a French painter
He came from an artistic family, one of whom Noel Jouvenet may have taught Nicolas Poussin.[1]
He early showed remarkable aptitude for his profession, and, on arriving in Paris, attracted the attention of Le Brun, by whom he was employed at Versailles, and under whose auspices, in 1675, he became a member of the Académie royale, of which he was elected professor in 1681, and one of the four perpetual rectors in 1707. He also worked under Charles de la Fosse in the Invalides and Trianon.
The great mass of works that he executed, chiefly in Paris, many of which, including his celebrated Miraculous Draught of Fishes (engraved by Audran; also Landon, Annales, i. 42), are now in the Louvre, show his fertility in invention and execution, and also that he possessed in a high degree that general dignity of arrangement and style which distinguished the school of Le Brun.
Jouvenet died on the 5 April 1717, having been forced by paralysis during the last four years of his life to work with his left hand.
[edit] Rediscoveries
- Darius and Alexandre, circa 1670, graphite on blue paper, study for the canvas offered to the Lycée Louis-le-Grand (Paris) by the King Louis XIV in 1674 (rediscovered in 2006 by Prof. Alain Béjard & Dimitri Joannidès, Alicem institute, Luxemburg)
[edit] References
- ^ Jean Jouvenet. Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- Mem. ined. acad. roy. de p. et de sc., 1854
- D'Argenville, Vies des peintres.
