Nicolas Bernard Lépicié

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié
Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, selfportrait (c. 1777) Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
Born	16 June 1735 Paris, France
Died	15 September 1784(1784-09-15) (aged 49) Paris, France
Occupation	Painter

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (16 June 1735 – 15 September 1784) was a French painter and teacher of painting, the son of two well-known engravers at the time, François-Bernard Lépicié and Renée-Élisabeth Marlié. Lépicié was famous in his lifetime, and compared to Chardin and Greuze.

Life

Nicolas-Bernard studied with leading artists of the century including Carle Vanloo. In 1769 he was accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris. Three years later, in 1772, he became an assistant professor and, in 1777, a professor. He taught important names such as Carle Vernet, Jean-Frederic Schall, Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, Jean-Joseph Taillasson, Henri-Pierre Danloux, Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Nicolas-Antoine Taunay.

Work

Lépicié's work was visibly influenced by his father's friend, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, whose themes were a source of inspiration. Lépicié's subjects range from portraits (Le Petit Dessinateur -1772; The Astronomer (i.e. Pierre Charles Le Monnier) - 1777) to history paintings (Achilles and the Centaur Chiron - 1769) and genre scenes (A Mother Feeding her Child - 1774, Cour de ferme - 1784).

Gallery

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  Portrait de la famille Leroy (1766), Moscow, Pushkin Museum.
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  Adonis changé en Anémone (c. 1768), Palace of Versailles.
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  Narcisse (1771), Saint-Quentin, Antoine-Lécuyer Museum.
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  Le Lever de Fanchon (1773), Saint-Omer, musée de l'hôtel Sandelin.
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  L'Intérieur d'une douane (1775), Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
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  Le Jeune Dessinateur, Paris, musée du Louvre displayed at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in 2008
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  Two Nude Male Figures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Seated Male Nude Facing Right at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

References

• Site officiel du musée du Louvre
• Nicolas Bernard Lépicié
• Philippe-Gaston Dreyfus, "Une dernière volonté de Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié" Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1er fascicule, Nogent-le-Rotrou, Daupeley-Gouverneur, 1910