Auguste Couder
Auguste Couder (born April 1, 1790, 1789 or 1791 in Paris ; † July 21, 1873 there ) was a French history painter .
Life and works
Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder was supposed to have a military career for which drawing skills were required. He then decided to devote himself to art at all, and began his training on November 26, 1813 at the École des Beaux-Arts , where Regnault and David were his teachers. Above all David influenced him strongly.
His first wife Cornélie was a daughter of the sculptor Abel Stouf , his second, Stéphanie , nee. Daniel-Klein was a painter. In 1814 he exhibited his death of General Moreau in the salon, but it was not until the painting Le Lévite d'Ephraim , exhibited in 1817, that it was considered a success. This painting was included in the Luxembourg Museum, a sketch for it in the museum in Montauban , and Caron reproduced the painting as an engraving. In 1819 there followed an Adoration of the Magi , which, after the exhibition in the Salon, came to the Church of the Missions étrangères in Paris. Adam and Eve from 1822 and Leonidas from 1824 came to the Louvre , and an equestrian portrait of King Francis I came to the Gallery of Versailles . In 1820 Couder was commissioned to decorate the rotunda dome in front of the Galerie d`Apollon in the Louvre with frescoes, which, however, earned him little thanks. Until 1827 the reviews were mostly negative. That year, in the salon, he exhibited a picture for the laying of the foundation stone of the Memorial to the Victims of Quiberon , which he had painted for the prefecture of Vannes . He also showed at that time St. Ambrose denies the Emperor Theodosius entry into the church , which later came to the church of Saint-Gervais in Paris.
Couder stayed in Munich for a year in the 1820s to study fresco technology. On his return to France he created the stoning of Saint Stephen in the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette church, which he completed in 1836. The Louvre is keeping a preliminary work for this fresco. Couder also created a fresco Notre-Dame-des-sept-douleurs in Saint-Germain l`Auxerrois.
In the 1830s and 1840s he exhibited an Adoration of the Magi that later came to the Museum of Avignon , an oath of Philippe Augustes that came to the Museum of Lisieux , and the Battle of Lawfeld , which came to the Gallery of Versailles. Then he created a number of historical large paintings for the gallery in Versailles, some of which were shown in the salon. A portrait of Archbishop Bernet von Aix in 1847 was followed by other portraits, some of which also ended up in the Versailles gallery. In France, museums in Cherbourg, Valenciennes, Mühlhausen in Alsace, Sémur, Rennes and other places came into possession of works by Couder. At least one self-portrait of the painter also made it to the Uffizi in Florence .
As a draftsman, he mainly worked to create templates for lithographs or tapestries. For example, he created a portrait of his father-in-law Stouf.
According to Thieme-Becker, Couder was one of the most important representatives of French classicism . He worked on the Dictionnaire des Beaux-Arts and wrote theoretical writings that were published in the anthology Considérations sur le but moral des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1867.
An extensive section is devoted to him in Jules Breton's Nos peintres du siècle .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ So Thieme-Becker and Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon .
- ↑ For example the Larousse and the Brockhaus .
- ↑ Etienne Achille Réveil, among others: Musée de peinture et de sculpture. Audot, 1828 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Etienne Achille Réveil: Musée de peinture et de sculpture. Audot, 1828 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Couder, Auguste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Couder, Louis-Charles-Auguste (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French history and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1789 or April 1, 1790 or 1791 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1873 |
| Place of death | Paris |