Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

See also: Boissieu

Jean Jacques of Boissieu , born in 1736 with Lyon and died in 1810, is a Artiste French, primarily Dessin ator and engraver, but also painter French.

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu had a great reputation at his time:

  • it was called by certain the “French Rembrandt” (according to the dictionary of reference Bénézit).
  • it is regarded as a founder of the Lyons School of painting.

Biography

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu is born with Lyon in 1736, wire of Jacques de Boissieu, doctor in Lyon and of Antoinette Vialis. Its family is originating in the Forez. Its ancestor Jean de Boissieu was secretary of the commands of the queen Marguerite de Valois.

Impassioned by art as of childhood, it realizes in 1758 “books of griffonnements invented and engraved by Boissieu - In Paris at Pariset”. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu will perfect his artistic education by a stay in Paris in 1761-1764 (where he attends the artists Claude Joseph Vernet, Claude-Henri Watelet and Jean-Baptiste Greuze) then by traditional “the Grand Turn” in Italy in company of the duke of Rochefoucauld in 1765-1766. On the passage, he visits in particular Voltaire with Ferney.

Returned in Lyon, it continues its artistic work with great success: Goethe collects its works, the brother of king de Prusse comes to visit his workshop, it is received with the Académie of Lyon (1780). It also carries out some boards for the Encyclopédie of Diderot.

In same time, he becomes adviser of the king, treasurer of France at the office of Finances (1771) and marries in 1773 Anne Roch de Valous (of a Lyons consular family).

During the French revolution, Jean-Jacques de Boissieu is protected by the painter Louis David and its coppers are placed “under the safeguard of the law”.

In 1802, it is named Member of the administrative Commission of the Academy of Arts.

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu will be mayor of Lentilly of 1806 to 1810, year of his death.

He was the Master of his nephew Claude Victor de Boissieu.

Works

Allergic to oil, Jean-Jacques de Boissieu carried out few tables but much drawings and engravings. He specialized in the portraits and the landscapes (region of Lion, Roman ruins). Its tables are present in the French public collections, in particular with the museum of Beautiful arts of Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Sens.

External bonds

  • Jean-Jacques de Boissieu in Artcyclopedia

Sources

  • Perez, the Work of Jean-Jacques de Boissieu , Geneva?.
  • Dictionary Bénézit.

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