Jean Pierre Norblin of Gourdaine

Jean Pierre Norblin of Gourdaine (July 15th 1740 - February 23rd 1830) was a Polish naturalized French painter, artist Dessinateur, engraver and Caricaturist. From 1774 until 1804 it resided in the Republic of the Two Nations (formed of the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania), of which he had become a citizen. He is regarded as one of the most important painters of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland. Its success in Poland was enormous: Norblin did not return to Paris until at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In its style it shows the influence of Antoine Watteau, and combines the tradition of the Rococo and the pastoral Fêtes with a panorama of the daily life and current political events captured with journalistic exactitude. It created a gallery of the portraits of the representatives of all social classes of the last years of the République.

Biography

Norblin was born in Misy-Is necessary-Yonne in 1740. It has began its career in France, in years “60 (its first work is dated 1763). Later it became influenced by Rembrandt and Watteau. Around 1769 he was exerted in the studio of Francesco Casanova, then (between 1769-70) with the Royal Académie of Painting and Sculpture, and in 1770-71 pennies Louis-Michel van Loo and Joseph-Marie Vien with the Royal Ecole of Raised Protected the. Around 1771-72 it has worked with Paris, London, Dresden and Spa, and probably has studied during a certain time at Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich. In 1772 it met Polish prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, with which it voyaga during two years and by which it was invited in Poland. Of 1774 it worked for the family of tycoon of Czartoryski and became their artist and particular professor for the children. Among its first most famous work are its illustrations with Myszeida , a poem by Ignacy Krasicki. He worked in the town of Puławy and with Warsaw, with Cimetière of Powązki as painter and decorator for of Czartoryski. Later he also worked for the family of Radziwiłł and for the king Stanislas II of Poland.

In 1790 it settled in Warsaw where it founded its school of art (among its high were Aleksander Orłowski and Michał Płoński). This removal enabled him to be pilot and illustrate of many important historic moments of the last years of the Republic of the Two Nations. Its work illustrated events accompanying the Polish Constitution of May 3rd, 1791 and soon it became famous as the witness and a painter-chronicler of the rising of Kościuszko. In its paintings it immortalisa of the most famous events of this time: Rising of Warsaw in April and fixing of the portraites of the traitors of Confederation of Targowica in the old place of the market, by the Battle of Racławice to the Massacre of Praga. After its return towards France in 1804 it always continued with painter while basing on some of its outlines of Poland, but it also illustrated other contemporary events, among them times of the wars of Napoleon.

Norblin died in Paris in 1830.

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