Charles Paul Landon

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Charles Paul Landon in 1791 (Artist: Edme Quenedey )

Charles Paul Landon (born October 12, 1760 in Nonant-le-Pin , today in the Orne department , † March 5, 1826 in Paris ) was a French painter and art historian .

life and work

Daedalus and Icarus (Dédale et Icare), oil on canvas, 1799. Alençon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la dentelle

Landon received a very good education, originally intended by his parents for the clergy, and came to Paris in 1785, where he turned to painting. In this discipline he had first François-André Vincent , then Jean-Baptiste Regnault as a teacher, in whose art he got used to; Even in the choice of fabrics he was influenced by Regnault. The similarity to Regnault's style is evident in his Portrait du comte Pierre-Jean de Bourcet et de sa famille (1791, Grenoble, Musée des Beaux-Arts ). He became the teacher of the Dukes of Berry and Angoulême. In 1791, soon after the outbreak of the French Revolution , he began exhibiting his paintings in the Paris Salon , which he continued to practice until 1812. In 1792 he won the Prix ​​de Rome with the work Eléazar préfère la mort au crime de violer la loi en mangeant des viandes défendues , but could not take up the five-year stay in Rome due to a lack of government funds .

Landon exhibited his award-winning painting Dédale et Icare ( Daedalus and Icarus ) in the Salon of 1799; it was initially kept in the Galerie des Luxembourg and later transferred to the Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la dentelle in Alençon . In 1801, Le Bain de Virginie ( The Bath of Virginia ) was created with life-size figures, which, like his Enfance de Paul et Virginie ( Childhood of Paul and Virginie ), also shown in the Salon of 1801, is in the same Alençon museum. Léda, Pollux et Hélène ( Leda, Pollux and Helena ; National Museum of the Castle of Fontainebleau ) belonged to 1806, Vénus et l'Amour ( Venus and Amor ; Nice , Musée des Beaux-Arts) to 1810 . In 1812 Landon was commissioned with the production of the painting Saint-Louis rétablit les tombeaux des rois for the sacristy of the Abbey of Saint-Denis . Other pictures created by Landon include Allégorie de la Peinture et de la Poésie ( allegory of painting and poetics ; Agen , Musée des Beaux-Arts) and Portrait de femme ( portrait of a woman , 1793; Grenoble , Musée des Beaux-Arts).

Together with Lavallée and Villeterque , Landon worked for the Journal des arts, des sciences et de la littérature . He was also a co-owner of the Gazette de France , in which he reported on art exhibitions for a long time. In 1813 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts . After Charles Ferdinand d'Artois , Duke of Berry, returned from emigration, he appointed Landon as a cabinet painter in 1814, but Landon no longer pursued this artistic discipline. In 1815 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor and in 1816, because of his excellent knowledge, he was appointed curator of the paintings of the Louvre in Paris , which he held for life.

Landon made a name for himself more than through his painting as an art critic, editor of art historical works and through numerous publications in French museums and salons of his time. His writings were supposed to help spread the knowledge of ancient and modern works of art and are still significant today. While they are unreliable in the accuracy of biographical details, the many illustrations they provide of works of art of all times make them interesting for artists of his and later times. Ch. Normand, Éléonore Lingée et al., Under his leadership, did the many outline drawings to illustrate his art-historical works. In addition to his multi-volume Annales du Musée et de l'école modern des beaux-arts , in which works of architecture, painting and sculpture created by ancient and modern artists and exhibited in French museums are presented and briefly commented on, is also the engravings of masterpieces and The writing Vies et œuvres des peintres les plus célèbres de toutes les écoles containing biographies of famous artists is particularly significant.

Landon died in Paris in 1826 at the age of 65. His son Charles Henri (* 1791; † 1860) worked as an architect, his daughter Marie-Pauline , married Soyer (* 1786; † 1871), as an engraver.

Publications

The writings published by Landon include:

  • Annales du Musée et de l'école modern des beaux-arts (17 volumes, Paris 1801–1808, uni-heidelberg.de ); 2nd edition continued by Fabien Pillet after Landon's death in 25 volumes, 1824–1835; German 7 volumes, Basel 1804–1809.
  • Nouvelles des arts, peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure (3 volumes, Paris 1802–1803).
  • Vies et œuvres des peintres les plus célèbres de toutes les écoles (25 volumes, Paris 1803–1825).
  • Almanach des arts, peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure, pour les années XIII et XIV (2 volumes, Paris 1803-1804).
  • Choix de tableaux, statues et autres objets d'art conquis par les armées françaises en 1805 et 1806 (4 volumes, Paris 1805–1810).
  • Paysages et tableaux de genre du Musée Napoléon (4 volumes, Paris 1805–1808).
  • Galerie historique des hommes les plus célèbres de toutes les siècles et de toutes nations (13 volumes, Paris 1805–1809; newer edition 1811).
  • Descriptions de Paris et de ses édifices (2 volumes, Paris 1806–1809; 2nd edition 1818).
  • Salons de 1808–1824 (13 volumes, uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • Les amours de Psyche et de Cupidon (translation of Apuleius by Feuillet, with 32 plates after Raffael , Paris 1809).
  • Le saint évangile (with 51 plates after Raffael, Domenichino , Poussin and Albani ).
  • Description de Londres et des ses édifices (Paris 1810, with 42 plates).
  • Giustiniani Gallery (Paris 1812).
  • Atlas du Musée, ou catalog figuré des tableaux et statues (Paris 1814 ff.).
  • Galerie de M. Massias, ancien résident de France à Carlsruhe (Paris 1815)
  • Numismatique du voyage du jeune Anacharsis, ou médailles des beaux temps de la Grèce (2 volumes, Paris 1818).
  • Choix de tableaux et de statues des plus célèbres musées et cabinets étrangers (12 volumes, Paris 1821 ff.).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annales du Musée et de l'Ecole Moderne des Beaux-Arts. uni-heidelberg.de, accessed on November 16, 2019 (with link to digital editions).
personal data
SURNAME Landon, Charles Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Nonant-le-Pin
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1826
Place of death Paris