Etienne Aubry
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.
Works (selection)
Pictures by Étienne Aubry are present in several collections:
- Musée de l'Histoire de France, Versailles
- Christoph Willibald Gluck (around 1771) Louvre , Paris
- Musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie de Châlons-en-Champagne
- Les Adieux de Coriolan à sa famille, au moment où il part pour se rendre chez les Volsques (1781), Musée d'art et d'histoire de Cholet, Cholet
- La Bergère des Alpes (1775), Detroit Institute of Arts , Detroit
- L'Adieu à la gouvernante (1777), Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute , Williamstown (Massachusetts)
- Parental Love (1775), Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
literature
- Aubry, Etienne . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 231 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Florence Ingersoll-Smouse: Quelques tableaux de genre inédits par Étienne Aubry (1745–1781) . In: Gazette des beaux-arts November 1925, pp. 77–86.
Web links
- Works on artnet
- Entry at the RKD
- Literature by and about Étienne Aubry in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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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 |