Robert Tournières

Robert Bulk of Tournières , born on June 17th, 1667 with Caen where he died on May 18th, 1752, is a painter French.

Raise Lucas Delahaye, then from Bon Boullongne and Rigaud, Tournières was accepted, makes rather singular, twice with the royal Académie of painting, in 1702, as painter of portraits with the portraits of the painters Pierre Mosnier and Michel Corneille, and the October 24th 1716, as painter of history with the Invention of the drawing (1716), showing a couple of in love lit by only one candle. Promoted auxiliary professor in 1737, it successfully exposed to the Salon of 1742.

The heterogeneous character of its work is typical of an artist of the transitional period of Regency: the Dutch elements give to its work a new and more intimate character, while lightness of its light pallet precedes the style Rococo. It made great paintings whose memory and trace are lost and of small in which it was distinguished, concerned about Godfried Schalken and Gerald Dou which it had especially studied. Those are well dispersed from now on, if not completely stray.

With a real talent of physiognomist and painter, Tournières enjoyed sound living a very great reputation. Extremely required of its time, it left a considerable number of portraits which are for the majority in the particular collections. With a delicate color, a perfect suitability in the installation and the adjustment, a certain elegance in draperies, it was, according to the word of eminent criticizes, an artist carefuller than powerful and, without being able to be counted with the row of the first portraitists, it holds a honourable place to with it.

Turned over in its cheap native in 1749, it ceases painting. His/her father, engraver of his state, had married a widow who had a son, which was François Lemoyne.

Works

Allegory of the autumn , Rouen, museum of the fine arts
Allegory of the summer , Rouen, museum of the fine arts
Colbert de Torcy (1665-1746) , Versailles, national museum of the castle and Trianons
Dibutade drawing with the gleam of a lamp the portrait of his/her lover, or the Invention of the drawing , Paris; 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools
Family in a landscape , Nantes, museum of the fine arts
the Lunch with the ham , Versailles, museum Lambinet
the Sculptor Brodon , Caen, museum of the fine arts
Louis Phelypeaux, count de Pontchartrain, chancellor of France (1643-1727) , Versailles, national museum of the castle and Trianons
Michel Crow the groin (1642-1708) , Versailles, national museum of the castle and Trianons
Moise saves water , Caen, museum of the fine arts
Pierre Mosnier or Monnier (1641-1703) , Versailles, museum national of the castle and Trianons
Portrait of old man , Paris, museum of Louvre department of Paintings
Portrait of a vice-chancellor of the university , work disappeared
Portrait from a family in a landscape , Nantes, museum of the fine arts
Portrait of Charles of Boische, marquis de Beauharnais, governor of Canada; Portrait of man decorated with the red cord (Old title) , Grenoble, museum of Grenoble
Portrait of family in a living room , Nantes, museum of the fine arts
Portrait of woman, the left hand on the chest , Rouen, museum of the fine arts
Portrait of the goldsmith Nicolas de Launay and his family, Caen, museum of the fine arts
Portrait of the family Maupertuis , Nantes, museum of the fine arts
Portrait of Louis Henri De Bourbon, prince de Condé (1621-1686), formerly said the marshal of Berwick , Rennes, museum of the fine arts
Portrait of Pontchartrain , Rennes, museum of the fine arts
Portrait of Voltaire , Rouen, museum of the fine arts
Portrait of the chancellor of Aguesseau , Rouen, museum of the fine arts
Portrait of the chancellor Louis Phélypeaux, count de Pontchartrain , Dijon, museum of the fine arts
Portrait of the engraver Audran , Caen, museum of the fine arts
Portrait in bust of the chancellor of Aguesseau , Rouen, museum of the fine arts
Portrait supposed of Maria Sybilla Merian , Caen, museum of the fine arts
Portrait supposes of Mister de Saint-Cannat and of his/her children , Marseilles, museum of the fine arts
Wild boar making head with the dogs , Fontainebleau, national museum of the castle

Sources

Olivier Merson, French Painting with the , Paris, Picardy Alcide & Kaan, p. 218-20.
Raphael Pinset, History of the portrait in France , Paris, A. Qantin, 1884, p. 149.

External bonds

Robert Tournières in the base Mona Lisa

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