Etienne Aubry

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Étienne Aubry (born January 10, 1745 in Versailles , † July 25, 1781 ibid) was a French painter .

Life

Étienne Aubry first learned his trade with Jacques Augustin de Silvestre (1719–1809) and then apprenticed to Joseph-Marie Vien . The Paris Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture appointed him portrait painter in 1771 . After he was represented in the same year with four paintings in the Salon de Paris , he portrayed Christoph Willibald Gluck , Étienne Jeaurat , Victoire of France , Noël Hallé and the sculptor Louis-Claude Vassé (1717–1772) , among others, in the following three years . Influenced by Jean-Baptiste Greuze , he turned to genre painting in 1775 . In 1777 he had great success at the Salon de Paris with his painting Le mariage rompu . In the autumn of the same year his patron, the Comte d'Angiviller , sent him to Rome . The hoped-for career as a history painter initiated by the Comte did not materialize. Aubry painted little in Italy and returned to Paris in 1780, suffering from malaria . At home, the year he died, he still painted Les Adieux de Coriolan à sa femme . It was shown in the Salon de Paris posthumously in 1781 , a success.

The first French Werther edition was translated by Aubry's brother Philippe-Charles (1744–1812). Étienne Aubry married Marie-Madeleine Boquet, the daughter of the painter Louis-René Boquet (1717-1814). The couple had a son - Marie-Augustin, born in Paris around 1774. The boy started his apprenticeship with François-André Vincent on April 2, 1788 and was still working there in 1791.

Girl with cat

Works (selection)

Pictures by Étienne Aubry are present in several collections:

literature

Web links

Commons : Étienne Aubry  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le mariage rompu .
  2. ^ Les adieux de Coriolan à sa femme
  3. ↑ Museum database .
  4. ↑ Museum database
personal data
SURNAME Aubry, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1781
Place of death Versailles