Jean-Joseph Taillasson
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Jean-Joseph Taillasson (Blaye, near Bordeaux,[2] 6 July 1745 — Paris, 11 November 1809[3]) was a French history painter and portraitist, draftsman and art critic,[4] who matured his talent in the Paris ateliers of Joseph-Marie Vien (from 1764)[5] and Nicolas Bernard Lépicié and, having won third place in the Prix de Rome competition, 1769, spent four years, 1773-77, in Italy. At his return to Paris he set an early example of neoclassicism.
His Observations sur quelques grands peintres,[6] (Paris, Duminil-Lesueur) 1807, offered anti-academic advice somewhat at variance with his own manner; some of the collected observations had previously appeared in the Journal des Arts[7]
[edit] Selected works
- Self Portrait, Musée du Louvre
- Jeune Homme, vêtu d'une robe, levant les bras, Musée du Louvre
- La Nymphe surprise, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse
- Timoléon à qui les Syracusiens amènent des étrangers, Musée Ingres, Montauban; another version is at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours.
- Un Vieillard, assis, lisant, Musée du Louvre
- Vieillard drapé, debout, vu de dos, Musée du Louvre.
- Claude-Louis, comte de Saint-Germain (1707-1778), 1777 Musée national de Versailles
- La Naissance de Louis XIII, 1782 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau
- La Madeleine au désert, 1784 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Ulysse et Néoptolème enlevant à Philoctète les flèches d'Hercule, 1784 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux; this was his morceau de reception at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
- Sabinus et Eponina découverts par les soldats de Vespasien 1787[8]
- Virgil reading the 'Aeneid' to Augustus and Octavia, 1787 (National Gallery, London)
- Léandre et Héro, 1789 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
- "Seigneur! Voyez ces yeux" (Cleopatra of Syria is discovered by Rodogune to have poisoned the nuptial cup, a scene from Pierre Corneille's Rodogune (1644), 1791 Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Tønnes Christian Bruun-Neergaard considered that it had established the painter's reputation, and remarked that it had belonged to Citoyen Godefroy, a well-known amateur, who auction dsaletranspired in 1794.[9]
- Pauline, femme de Sénèque, rappelée à la vie, 1791 Musée du Louvre
- Olympias, 1799[10]
- Andromache, 1800[11]
- Rhadamate et Zénobie, 1806[12]
- Spring (or Flora) leading Cupid back to Nature (Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK)
[edit] Notes
- ^ The anecdote, in which the poet read the passage in Book VI in praise of Octavia's late son Marcellus, and Octavia fainted with grief, was recorded in the late fourth-century vita of Virgil by Aelius Donatus.
- ^ John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins, Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings (1887) s.v. "Taillasson, Jean Joseph".
- ^ Cyclopedia.
- ^ His poem "Le Danger des règles dans les Arts" was noted with approval by the Danish visitor to Paris, Tønnes Christian Bruun-Neergaard, and an elegy "Sur la Nuit", he thought, seemed fit to soften the least sensitive heart. (Bruun-Neergaard, ''Sur la situation des beaux arts en France: ou lettres d'un Danois a son ami (pp. 140-41, under the date 12 germinal an 9 [3 April 1802]).
- ^ "Taillasson , très-bon compositeur" remarked Bruun-Neergaard.
- ^ Full title, Observations sur quelques grands peintres, dans lesquelles on cherche à fixer les caractères distinctifs de leur talent, avec un précis de leur Vie
- ^ Remarked on by Bruun-Neergaard; see also Debra Schrishuhn, "The Observations Of Jean-Joseph Taillasson: Anti-Academic Admonitions From A Seasoned Academician" Proceedings Of The Consortium On Revolutionary Europe(1997:651-58).
- ^ Cyclopedia
- ^ Bruun-Neergaard 1802:141.
- ^ Cyclopedia
- ^ Cyclopedia
- ^ Cyclopedia
