Joseph-Marie Vien
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Joseph-Marie Vien | |
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| Born | 18 June 1716 |
| Died | 27 March 1809 (aged 92) |
| Resting place | Panthéon, Paris |
| Known for | Painting |
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| Children | Joseph-Marie Vien the young |
Joseph-Marie Vien (18 June 1716 – 27 March 1809) was a French painter. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791, before it was abolished during the French Revolution.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Montpellier. As a protégé of the Comte de Caylus, he entered the studio of Natoire at an early age and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1745. He used his time at Rome in applying to the study of nature and the development of his own powers all that he gleaned from the masterpieces around him; but his tendencies were so foreign to the reigning taste that, upon his return to Paris, he owed his admission to the academy for his picture Daedalus and Icarus (Louvre) solely to the indignant protests of François Boucher.[1]
In 1757, Joseph-Marie Vien married Marie-Thérèse Reboul, a French painter and engraver, who he also may have taught.[2] Their son Joseph-Marie Vien the young was born in 1761 and later distinguished himself as a painter as well.[1]
When in 1776, at the height of his established reputation, he was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome, he refused to take Jacques-Louis David with him amongst his pupils, stating he was too old to teach a young artist. After his return, five years later, his fortunes were wrecked by the French Revolution, but he undauntedly set to work, and at the age of eighty (1796) carried off the prize in an open government competition. Napoleon Bonaparte acknowledged his merit by making him a senator.[1]
Joseph-Marie Vien died in Paris and was buried in the crypt of the Panthéon. He left behind many brilliant pupils, including François-André Vincent, Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, François-Guillaume Ménageot, and Jean-Joseph Taillasson.[1]
Works
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- Sainte Marthe recevant le Christ à Bethanie (1747), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
- Saint Jérôme méditant sur un crâne, La Fère, Musée Jeanne d'Aboville
- La résurrection de Lazare (1747), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
- L'embarquement de sainte Marthe (1751), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
- L'arrivée de sainte Marthe en Provence (1748), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
- La prédication de sainte Marthe (1748), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
- L'agonie de sainte Marthe (1748), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
- Les funérailles de sainte Marthe (1748), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
- Hermite endormi (1753), Musée du Louvre
- Dédale dans le Labyrinthe attachant les ailes à Icare (1754), Musée du Louvre
- St Theresa of Avila (1754–55), New Orleans Museum of Art
- La Douce Mélancolie (1756), Cleveland Museum of Art
- L'Enlèvement de Proserpine (1762), Museum of Grenoble
- La Marchande d'amours (1763), Palace of Fontainebleau
- Une Femme qui sort des bains, 1763, (huile 95x68 cm) (private collection)[3]
- Saint Denis préchant (1767), Church of Saint-Roch, Paris
- Grecque au bain (1767), Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Jeunes grecques parant de fleurs l'Amour endormi (1773), Musée du Louvre
- Saint Louis Handing Over the Regency to His Mother (1773), Saint-Louis Chapel, École Militaire, Paris
- Venus, Wounded by Diomedes, Is Saved by Iris (1775), Columbus Museum of Art
- Les adieux d'Hector et d'Andromaque (1786), Musée du Louvre
- Love Fleeing Slavery (1789), Princeton University Art Museum
- Toilette d'une jeune mariée dans le costume antique, (100x135 cm) (private collection)[4]
Gallery
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Lover Crowning his Mistress -
the Chase -
Sweet Melancholy, 1756 -
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Women in Classical Dress Attending a Young Bride, 1777 -
The Farewell of Hector and Andromache, 1786 -
Black Sultana -
Jacques Louis David as a teenager
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Vien, Joseph Marie". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 50.
- ^ Jeffares, Neil (29 March 2025). "Dictionary of pastellists before 1800" (PDF). Pastels & pastellists. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Auctioned €426,685 on 26 March 2004 Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot.
- ^ Auctioned €401,487 in June 1992 by Sotheby's Monaco.
Further reading
[edit]- Gaethgens, Thomas W.; Lugand, Jacques (1988). Joseph-Marie Vien, Peintre Du Roi, 1716–1809 (in French). Paris: Arthena. ISBN 2-903239-09-6. LCCN 89-210837. OCLC 1424698735.
External links
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- 1716 births
- 1809 deaths
- Artists from Montpellier
- Painters from Occitania (administrative region)
- 18th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 19th-century French painters
- Burials at the Panthéon, Paris
- Members of the Sénat conservateur
- Neoclassical painters
- Premiers peintres du Roi
- 19th-century French male artists
- 18th-century French male artists