Charles Maucourt
Charles Maucourt (* 1718 in Paris , † January 1768 in London ) was a French painter and etcher .
Life
He first worked in Paris as a portrait and miniature painter as well as a draftsman. After the death of his (first) wife Anne-Genevieve Humblot in 1748, he went on a journey. In 1750 he is attested as a court painter at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and in 1752 worked for the court of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In 1755 he was in Düsseldorf , towards the end of the 1750s in Braunschweig and then went to London. From 1761 to 1767 he took part in exhibitions of the Royal Society of Arts here .
In addition to portraits in oil and pastel paintings , historical engravings by him have come down to us.
His son Louis Charles Maucourt (also Charles Louis Maucourt , * 1760 in Braunschweig, † probably 1825) became violinist and conductor of the Braunschweig court orchestra. He was also known as a composer and violin teacher of Louis Spohr .
Works
- Duke Christian Ludwig II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1752), Ludwigslust Palace
- Albrecht Heinrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1753) Statens Museum for Kunst
- Friedrich August (Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Oels) (1753), Statens Museum for Kunst
- Leopold Ignaz Blumhoff (1755), City Museum Düsseldorf
- Karl Theodor (Pfalz and Bavaria) and Elisabeth Auguste von Pfalz-Sulzbach (1755), City Museum Düsseldorf
- Agostino Carlini (1762), miniature, National Portrait Gallery (London)
- The expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain (1767), mezzotint , 2013 in the art market
- His altar painting, painted in 1750 for the Johanniterkirche on Mirow Castle Island , was replaced in 1868 by a copy of Albrecht Dürer's Christ on the Cross painted by Grand Duchess Marie and was taken to the Leussow (Mirow) village church .
literature
- Friedrich Schlie : Description of works by older masters. Gemäldegalerie Schwerin, 1882, pp. 377–379.
- Gerd Dettmann : Marcourt, Charles . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 273 .
- Maucourt, Charles. In: Neil Jeffares: Dictionary of pastellists before 1800. pastellists.com (PDF; 208 kB)
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6421 .
Web links
- Literature on Charles Maucourt in the Landesbibliographie MV
- Works by Charles Maucourt in the Landesbibliographie MV
Individual evidence
- ^ Maucourt, Louis Charles. In: Gustav Schilling: Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences, or Universal Lexicon of Tonkunst. Volume 4, Verlag FH Köhler, 1837, p. 603 ( books.google.com ).
- ↑ Entry in the database of the Statens Museum for Kunst
- ↑ Entry in the database of the Statens Museum for Kunst
- ↑ Description and illustration
- ↑ attribution after Jeffares; unknown in the city museum as an artist
- ↑ Description and illustration
- ^ Description and illustration at Grosvenor Prints
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maucourt, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1718 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1768 |
| Place of death | London |