Jean-Pierre Houël

See also: Houël

Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houël , born the June 28th 1735 with Rouen and died with Paris the November 14th 1813, is a engraver, Dessinateur and painter French.

Born in a family from prosperous craftsmen, Houël made known early its taste for the art of the drawing, of which it began the study at the fifteen years age to the school of the Art schools of Rouen, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Descamps. It acquired there a familiarity with works of the Dutch painters and Flemish who was determining on the choice that it made specialize in the painting of landscapes.

Placé then in a skilful architect, it studied the prospect there; then, always thorough towards its art of predilection, it went to Paris, where it entered the workshop of Bottom, the founder of the beautiful etching. Become one of the best pupils of this Master, Houël, encouraged by an amateur the most distinguished of, Mr. Dazincourt, accepted lessons of Casanova and delivered to the exercise painting without nevertheless neglecting engraving; then, putting at execution the project, that it had formed for a long time, to go to improve in Italy, it obtained a pension of the king and left for Rome with the best recommendations.

Hardly it had posed the foot on this desired ground of the artists, that Houël felt its genius to ignite and increase with the sight of the monuments of the Antiquité and the beautiful sites of this region, that it started to paint with the gouache with a great facility and much of talent. Returned in its fatherland after four years of studies, Houël there made favorably appreciate its manner of painting, especially for the landscapes and the animals and worked in this kind for several cabinets of amateurs of Rouen and Paris. Animated desire to visit Italy one second time, it left again and traversed the kingdom of Naples, the Sicily, the islands of Malta and Lipari. It was in this voyage that it piled up materials of its great picturesque work, works of which, on its return in France, it engraved, according to its own drawings, hundred sixty-four boards with the aquatinte and wrote the explanatory text, which it published of 1782 with 1789 (4 folio volumes).

Houël was aggregate with the Académie of Painting, member corresponding of the Académie of Rouen, the Company of Emulation of the same city, the maconnic Loge of the Last nine Sisters and several learned societies. In addition to its Picturesque Voyage , its principal work, Houël still published: History of the Elephants of your national menagerie , etc, Paris, 1798, in-8°. fig.; Natural history of the two Bull elephants and female of the Natural history museum of Paris , etc, 1798, in-4°, fig.; Explanation of the public building the Column Trajane ; Exposed contest of December 20th, 1807 .

The tables of Houël, which appeared in the first catalogs of the Musée of Rouen, are: Seen Coast of Holy-Catherine, catch of Pre to the Wolves ; Seen entry of the interior of a Cellar cut in the rock, being used as salt warehouse, with Dieppedalle, close to Rouen ; Seen of a known place close to Duclair, vulgarly called the Chair of Gargantua ; Seen Cauchoise Door, in inside of the City, before its demolition .

A portrait of Houël, painted by Vincent, is with the Musée of Rouen; a engraved portrait is also seen in the collection of the Library of the same city.

Works

Paintings

Halt of travellers , Museum of Louvre
the Hermitage , Museum of the Louvre
Landscape of Italy , Museum of Louvre
Cellar being used as salt warehouse in Dieppedalle , Museum of the Art schools of Rouen
Dance of peasants , Museum of Louvre
the Ford , Museum of Louvre
Seen coast Holy-Catherine , disappeared work

Drawings

Shepherdess and her animals close to a fountain , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Career from where one drew the stones from the temples of Sélinonte , Musée of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Façade and dome of the Invalids seen of the boulevard , Musée of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Intérieur of the cave of Water in Syracuse , Musée of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Intérieur of the cave the ear of Denys the Tyrant in Syracuse , Musée of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Intérieur of the temple of the Harmony with Agrigente , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the Fountain of Aréthuse, in Syracuse , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the Cave of the goats with Micate , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the Cave the ear of Denys the Tyrant to the locality the Paradise in Syracuse , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the septentrional Part of the gulf of Naples , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the Chestnut of the hundred horses on the slopes of Etna , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the Crater of Stromboli , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the Strait of Messine and coasts of Calabria , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the Headland and part of the town of Manor house of Iaci , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the Temple of Junon Lucinienne in Agrigente , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the Temple of Ségeste , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Baths ancient of warm water, known as of Calogeno Saint, in Lipari , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the Shelves of the Cyclops called Farailloni, close to the port of Trizza , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the Ruins of the theater of Syracuse , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Etna and one of the suburb of Catane seen of Carried of Aci , Musée of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
the island of Volcano seen of Lipari , Musée of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
side Partie the temple of Minerve to Syracuse, transformed into cathedral , Musée of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Left southernmost the gulf Naples , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Landscape of the valley of Caltagirone , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Characters with foot or in the boat near a bridge spanning a river , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruines of Froze , Musée of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruines of the column of triumph called Guglia , Musée of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruines of Dogana (customs) with Contorbi , Musée of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the ancient baths of Aderno, on the sides of Etna , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the ancient baths of Santa Croce, in Sicily , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the large temple of Sélinonte , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the small amphitheater of Syracuse , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the small temple of Agrigente , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the bridge of Lilybée , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the temple of Beaver and Pollux with Agrigente , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the Olympian Jupiter temple with Agrigente , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the temple of the Harmony with Agrigente , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the temple of Segeste , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the temple of Hercules with Agrigente , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of the theater of Catane , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of an ancient building of Taormine , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of a triumphal monument located between Agosta and Syracuse , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of a triumphal monument on the road of Agosta with Carlintini , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of a small temple of Saint Philippe d' Argino , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Ruins of a temple of Sélinonte , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Supposed tomb of Théron, tyrant of Agrigente , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
an ancient Bath with the convent of the Carmelite friars of Indrizzo with Catane , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
a Castle and its dependences in top of a planted hill of trees , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
One of the Shelves of the Cyclops close to the port of Trezza , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
a Headland of lava at the seaside, close to Catane , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
One Ancient tomb with Aderno located in the field of the chamoine Ciancio , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts

Part of the interior of the ruins of the theater of Syracuse , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Seen surroundings of Naples , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Seen lake Averne close to Bays , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Seen of a Gothic church, with two cows and a country-woman , Museum of the Louvre, department of Graphic arts
Seen of a river running between a park and a thatched cottage , Museum of Louvre, department of Graphic arts

Sources

Theodore-Éloi Lebreton, Biography rouennaise , Rouen, Brument, 1865, p. 190-1

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