Jean Barbault
Jean Barbault (1718–1762)[1] was a French painter and printmaker, working in Rome.
Life
Barbault spent his whole career in Italy, where he lived from around 1747.[1] He was admitted to the French Academy in Rome in Rome in 1750, despite not being a winner of the Grand Prix.[1] Many of his works are small paintings depicting individual figures, either Italian women, or his fellow artists dressed in fantastical "Oriental" costumes.[1] One much larger oil on paper – almost four metres wide – depicts a group of artists taking part in a carnival procession on the theme of "The Four Corners of the World". It is now in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie at Besançon.[1] He also painted scenes of ruins in a style similar that of Servandoni.[1]
As a painter, Barbault has never been well known,[1] but he etched a set of prints of Les plus beaux Monuments de Rome ancienne, and two other series of archaeological plates. He also made a few engravings, including The Martyrdom of St. Peter, after Subleyras, and The Arrival of Columbus in America, after Solimena.[2] He died in Rome in 1762, at the age of 43.[1]
An exhibition of his work was held in Beauvais, touring to Angers, Valence and Dijon, in 1974–5; another, which included about half of his known paintings, was staged at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg in 2010.[1]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Barbault, Jean". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.