Cherubino Patà

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Mountain river, signed G. Courbet

Pietro Antonio Cherubino Patà (born June 9, 1827 in Sonogno , Canton Ticino , † February 2, 1899 in Gordola ) was a Swiss painter of realism . As a companion and imitator of Gustave Courbet , he devoted himself primarily to landscape and portrait painting .

Life

Cherubino Patà was born in Sonogno in 1827 as one of six children of the shepherd Abbondio Patà and his wife Apollonia (née Tamò). He attended a drawing school in Locarno and was commissioned to decorate the Sonogno church in 1854 . From 1856 to 1858 he traveled through western Switzerland as a portrait painter before emigrating to Lyon in 1860 . There he married Emilie Schnewlin (1839–1898) from German-speaking Switzerland in 1866 , with whom he had two daughters and a son.

After the family had settled in Paris , Patà exhibited regularly in the salons there from 1868. He made friends with the French painter Gustave Courbet and became his student, assistant and business agent. In 1873, Courbet, as a member of the Paris Commune, was forced to flee abroad. Patà followed him into exile in La Tour-de-Peilz and the two made numerous landscapes together . After a trip to Algeria in the 1880s he lived in La Chaux-de-Fonds and finally in Gordola , where he died in 1899.

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Cherubino Patà made a name for himself as a landscape , genre and portrait painter . While his pictures from his youth are described as naive and his late work can be assigned to realism , a different quality permeates his entire work. The suspicion that he had plagiarized the paintings of his artistic model Courbet - Patà signed some works with the name of his teacher - diminished his reputation. Patà's oil paintings are often exhibited as part of Courbet retrospectives, for example at the Courbet Museum in Ornans in 1988 . Most of his works are now in private hands.

  • Traveler with donkey in a mountain valley

  • Forest landscape (with Gustave Courbet)

  • Winter landscape with a view of a Swiss city

  • Mill at Hauteville

  • Landscape on Lake Geneva

  • Le ruisseau du Puits Noir (based on Courbet)

Works (selection)

  • 1876: Paysage forestier (forest landscape) . Oil on canvas, 51 × 62 cm (with Gustave Courbet ).
  • 1882: La Cascade de la Billaude, Franche Comté (The Billaude Waterfall) . Oil on canvas, 149.8 cm × 200.4 cm.
  • 1885: Paysage d'hiver avec maison (winter landscape with a house) . Oil on canvas, 38 × 46 cm.
  • 1888: Fortresse sur une colline, Algerie (fortress on a hill, Algeria) . Oil on canvas, 48.3 × 59.7 cm.
  • Paysage de lac léman dans les alpes (Landscape on Lake Geneva in the Alps) . Oil on canvas, 65.1 × 81.3 cm.
  • Paysage motagnaux (mountain landscape) . Oil on canvas, 37.5 × 60.5 cm. (possibly together with Courbet)
  • Les falaises à Launde (The cliffs of Launde) . Oil on canvas, 50 × 61 cm.

literature

Web links

Commons : Cherubino Patà  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Pierre Chessex: Cherubino Patà. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 25, 2009. Retrieved January 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Famiglia Patà-Schnewlin. GenData.ch, accessed on January 22, 2018 (Italian).
  3. ↑ a b Patà, Cherubino . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 290 .
personal data
SURNAME Patà, Cherubino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patà, Pietro Antonio Cherubino (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter of realism
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonogno
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1899
Place of death Gordola