Auguste-Joseph Desarnod the Elder
Auguste-Joseph Desarnod the Elder ( French Auguste-Joseph Desarnod l'Ancien , Russian Август Осипович Дезарно , * 1788 in France , † April 15, 1840 in Saint Petersburg ) was a French battle painter active in Russia . He studied painting with Antoine-Jean Gros at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . As a French officer of the 10th Hussar Regiment, he took part in the Russian campaign in 1812 and was captured by the Cossacks during the Battle of Krasnoye .
After the liberation in 1814, he stayed in Russia and received Russian citizenship. In 1815 he presented his picture to the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg with the depiction of a Russian officer fighting with the French riflemen, and in 1817 another battle picture, which, however, did not bring him the longed-for academic title. Auguste-Joseph Desarnot did not become an academician until 1827 after the presentation of a picture depicting his own capture.
In the years 1829-1830 he visited Turkey with the expedition of Count Hans Karl von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski . There he made many sketches, which after his return, in collaboration with the tsar's librarian, C. Sayger, processed into a collection of lithographs that were included in the “Album d'un voyage en Turquie fait par ordre de sa majesté l'empereur Nicolas 1er en 1829 et 1830, par C. Sayger & A. Desarnod ”, published by Firmin Didot Frères in Paris, 1834.
Desarnod's son of the same name, Auguste-Joseph Desarnod (1812–1850), also became a painter and also worked with the daguerreotype . He lived in Porvoo in southern Finland from 1842 to 1848 .
literature
- Natalja A. Tjurina: Desarnod, Auguste Joseph . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 26, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22766-3 , p. 311.
Web links
- Дезарно Август Осипович (Auguste-Joseph Desarnot) (1788–1840) (biography, Russian)
- Biographical Dictionary AA Polovzew 1896–1918
- Sayger, C. & Desarnod, A [uguste Joseph]. Album d'un voyage en Turquie fait par ordre de sa majesté l'empereur Nicolas 1er en 1829 et 1830, par C. Sayger & A. Desarnod, Paris, Imprimérie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1834.
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| SURNAME | Desarnod, Auguste-Joseph the Elder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Desarnod, Auguste-Joseph l'Ancien (French); Дезарно, Август Осипович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French battle painter, active in Russia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | France |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1840 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |