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