Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier
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Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier | |
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Born | Rouen, France | 11 November 1738
Died | 7 May 1826 Paris, France | (aged 87)
Nationality | French |
Known for | Painter, illustrator, writer and philosopher |
Notable work | Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen |
Movement | Orientalist |
Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak fʁɑ̃swa lə baʁbje]; 11 November 1738 – 7 May 1826) was a writer, illustrator and painter of French history. By 1780 he was an official painter of the King of France.[1]
He was the father of artist Élise Bruyère.
Work
[edit]His most famous work was a representation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen made in 1789. He also designed the suite of tapestries of the four contingents (1790–91).[2]
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Africa from a set of The Four Continents
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Asia from a set of The Four Continents
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Turkish Bathscape 1785, illustration from the book, The Harem
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The Hammam 1785
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A Spartan Woman Giving a Shield to Her Son], before 1826
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Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash with touches of watercolor (circa 1765 –66)
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Drawing, Porcelain Candlestick, 1770–1780
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Drawing, Design for a Bronze Candlestick, ca. 1800
Select list of work
- Courage des femmes de Sparte se défendant contre les Messéniens, Musée du Louvre, Paris;[3]
- Étude de femme en fureur, Musée Magnin de Dijon;[4]
- Henri IV et Sully à Fontainebleau, Musée des beaux-arts de Pau;
- Jupiter endormi sur le mont Ida, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris;
- La Grotte d’Égérie, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen;
- Le Vieux Mari, Musée Cantini de Marseille;
- Les Amants surpris, Musée Cantini de Marseille;
- Martyre de saint Sébastien, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen;
- Scène d’Amérique du Nord, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen;
- Un Canadien et sa femme pleurant sur le tombeau de leur enfant, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen,[5] tableau interprété en gravure par François Robert Ingouf;[6]
- Le Courage héroïque du jeune Désilles, le 31 août 1790, à l'Affaire de Nancy, Vizille, musée de la Révolution française;
- L'Apothéose de Rameau, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Toul;
- Portrait de Madame Roland, Musée d'art de Toulon;
- L'Apothéose de Lulli, Musée d'Art et d'histoire de Toul;
- La Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789, Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
References
[edit]- ^ Peck, A. (ed.), Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800, Yale University Press, 2013, p. 271
- ^ Peck, A. (ed.), Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800, Yale University Press, 2013, p. 271
- ^ Base Joconde: Courage des femmes de Sparte se défendant contre les Messéniens, French Ministry of Culture. (in French)
- ^ Base Joconde: Étude de femme en fureur, French Ministry of Culture. (in French)
- ^ Base Joconde: Un Canadien et sa femme pleurant sur le tombeau de leur enfant, French Ministry of Culture. (in French)
- ^ Dictionnaire Bénézit, Gründ, 1999, François Robert Ingouf, tome 7, page 347.
External links
[edit]Media related to Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Writers from Rouen
- 18th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 19th-century French painters
- French history painters
- 19th-century French writers
- 1738 births
- 1826 deaths
- French male writers
- 19th-century French male writers
- 19th-century French male artists
- Artists from Rouen
- 18th-century French male artists
- French painter, 18th-century birth stubs