Guillaume Voiriot
Guillaume Voiriot (* 1713 in Paris ; † November 30, 1799 ) was a French portrait painter of Lorraine origin. The family name of his ancestors was Woeiriot (Wœiriot).
The portraitist went to Italy at his own expense between 1746 and 1749 . After his return, he first joined the Académie de Saint-Luc , which is under the patronage of the Painters and Sculptors Guild , and exhibited in their art salons before, in 1759, after submitting his portraits to the painters Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre and Jean-Marc Nattier was accepted into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture .
From 1759 to 1771 he regularly exhibited portraits of his contemporaries in the Paris Salon . After that, he took part less in this annual exhibition, as he increasingly turned to administrative tasks. However, he continued to portray family members, scientists, writers, actors and musicians.
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The Essai de catalog compiled by Catherine Voiriot cites the 67 works that have survived , as well as 8 works known from engravings and 37 works mentioned in various sources.
Factory selection
- 1746: Self-portrait by the painter Guillaume Voiriot , oil on canvas, 38 × 25 cm, Versailles , Palace of Versailles
- 1751: Portrait de Dom Etienne Galland (Portrait of Dom Etienne Galland), oil on canvas, 84.2 × 71.2 cm, Dijon , Musée des Beaux-Arts
- 1756: Portrait de Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, peintre travaillant à l'esquisse de son plafond L'apothéose de Psyché(Portrait of the painter Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre , working on the sketch of his ceiling painting Die Apothéose der Psyche ), oil on canvas, 120 × 97.5 cm, Versailles, Palace of Versailles
- 1767: Portrait de groupe de la famille de Pierre V de Perseval (Group portrait of the family of Pierre V. de Parseval)
- ???: Portrait du peintre Jean-Marc Nattier (Portrait of the painter Jean-Marc Nattier), oil on canvas, 120 × 97 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
- ???: Jean-Joseph Sue, chirurgien, professeur d'anatomie à l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ( Jean-Joseph Sue , surgeon, anatomy professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ), oil on canvas, 127 × 96 cm, Versailles, Palace of Versailles
- ??? Portrait de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau), pastel after an original by Maurice Quentin de La Tour , 44.5 × 37 cm, Montmorency , Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau
literature
- Catherine Voiriot: Guillaume Voiriot (1712–1799), portraitist de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture . In: Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français . Year 2004, pp. 111–157, 2005
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voiriot, Guillaume |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1713 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1799 |