Alexander Kucharski
Alexander Kucharski , also Aleksander Kucharski (born March 18, 1741 in Warsaw ; † November 5, 1819 in Paris ) was a Polish painter who mainly worked in France .
In his youth, Kucharski Page was with the Polish King Poniatowski and then learned the painting trade in Marcello Bacciarelli's studio . He then went to Paris and studied from 1760 to 1769 with Joseph-Marie Vien and Carle van Loo at the Académie royale . From 1776 to 1778, Kucharski was in the retinue of the Princes of Condé .
Kucharski developed into a portrait painter who was highly valued by the Polish and French aristocracy. He painted u. a. Portraits of Marie Antoinette and her children and of Catherine the Great .
According to experts, his authorship of the famous and much discussed portrait pastel “Bella Potocka” , which Sophie Potocka is supposed to depict , is considered possible.
His tomb is in the Père Lachaise Cemetery , Division 1.
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Marie Antoinette
literature
- Joseph Raymond Fournier-Sarlovèze: Les Peintres de Stanislas-Auguste II, roi de Pologne: Bacciarelli, Antoine Graff, Norblin de la Gourdaine, Grassi, Alexandre Kucharski, Per Krafft et Bernardo Bellotto, Louis Marteau, Vincent deleseur, Daniel Chodowiecki, Joseph Pitschmann . Paris, Librairie de l'art ancien et moderne, 1907
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ This in one of the most reliable sources on the history of pastel painting in the 18th century: Neil Jaffares, "Dictionary of pastellists before 1800", London 2006 ( PDF; 2.2 MB )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kucharski, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kucharski, Aleksander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1741 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1819 |
| Place of death | Paris |