Charles-François Poërson

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Charles-François Poerson (* 20th October 1653 in Paris ; † 2 September 1725 in Rome ) was a French painter of the Baroque .

Life

Charles-François Poërson was the only surviving son of the painter Charles Poerson (1609–1667) and his wife Françoise-Marguerite Bruyant (c. 1610–1670), along with four sisters . He learned painting from his father and Noël Coypel .

From 1704 until his death in 1725 he was director of the Académie de France à Rome . He got there for the first time in November 1672 with Coypel, when he became director there. In 1677 he is back in Paris. In 1782 he became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture , in 1687 (deputy) and 1695 (full) professor, as the successor to René-Antoine Houasse .

In 1692 he married Marie-Philiberte de Chaillou († 1736). In 1711 he received the Knight's Cross from St. Lazarus . In December 1713 he was reprimanded by the king for having, congratulated by the Pope, accepted Carlo Maratta's title of Prince of the Accademia di San Luca ( Academy of Saint Luke ).

His works include the debate between Neptune and Minerva in Fontainebleau Castle . In Rome he mainly painted portraits , as well as a commission from Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni .

Poërson died in Rome in 1725. He is buried in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome in a tomb made by the stonemason Pierre de L'Estache .

Works (selection)

  • Debate between Neptune and Minerva , 1700, since 1861 in the Castle of Fontainebleau
  • Concert de Musique , 1700, as mentioned above for the Duchess of Burgundy, in Versailles
  • Saint Ludwig kneeling before the crown of thorns and the Holy Trinity , 1701, for the Faintainebleau chapel
  • Union of the “ Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ” of Paris and the “ Accademia di San Luca ” of Rome , in the Palace of Versailles
  • Parts of the works in the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris
  • Rest on the run , oil painting, in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , Cologne , since 1824
  • Psyche in the bath , design for the tapestry carpet, 1684
  • Drawing for two vignettes (engraved by Thomassin): The art of pleasing conversations and the victory of religion over blasphemy .
  • Presented at the “Salon” in 1699: Portrait of the King ; Tobias seeing again ; Lot and his daughters drunkenness ; Adoration of the kings ; St. Guillaume, Duke of Aquitaine .
  • Self-Portrait, Uffizi Gallery , Florence

Portraits

  • Bust on the epitaph of his grave; Bust in the library of the École Française
  • Nicolas de Largillière (before 1715, original missing); preserved as a graphic by Étienne Desrochers (c. 1717)
  • d'Edelinck. In: L'arte della pittura , 1712.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description in the picture index
  2. ↑ Description and illustration in the picture index of art and architecture .
  3. ↑ L'Art de plaire in la conversation.
  4. ↑ Le Triomphe de la religion sur l'hérésie.
  5. ↑ Inv. No. 101963.

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personal data
SURNAME Poërson, Charles-François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poerson, Charles-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1725
Place of death Rome