Hyacinth de La Pegna

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Hyacinth de La Pegna (* 1706 in Brussels , † 1772 in Rome ) was a French battle and vedute painter .

The Prussian Corps Fink holds out its weapons after the Battle of Maxen on November 21, 1759
The attack near Hochkirch on October 17, 1758

life and work

The exact dates of de La Pegna's life are unknown. He trained as a war painter in Brussels and Paris , later entered Sardinian service and came to Rome before 1748. On April 21, 1748, shortly before his departure from Rome, he became a member of the Accademia di San Luca there . From 1753 to 1755 the painter stayed in Rome again, after which he can be traced back to Brussels as head of the tapestry manufacture . On 18 June 1755 it proclaimed Empress Maria Theresia for "painter extraordinaire" . In 1756 de La Pegna received payments for cardboard boxes for four tapestries with scenes of soldiers.

From 1759 to 1762 the painter can be traced back to Vienna . During this time, de La Pegna painted two battle pictures from the time of the Seven Years' War for Field Marshal Prince Leopold Joseph von Daun . The paintings that are in the Army History Museum in Vienna are the raid at Hochkirch and the Finckenfang at Maxen , with Daun in command of the Austrian troops in each case. The military historian and former director of the Army History Museum, Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck , attested the two paintings to a high degree of authenticity.

In 1769 de La Pegna went again to Rome, where he was appointed provisional of the Flemish national church of San Giuliano. De La Pegna stayed in Rome for another three years until he died there in 1771.

Works (excerpt)

  • Attack on the Prussian camp near Hochkirch on October 14th, 1758 . Oil on canvas, 260 × 344 cm. Army History Museum, Vienna.
  • The Prussian Corps Fink holds out its weapons after the Battle of Maxen on November 21, 1759 . Oil on canvas, 260 × 344 cm. Army History Museum, Vienna.
  • Soldiers at a city gate , copper engraving, Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam
  • Landscape with a field battle , copper engraving, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
  • Skirmish on a bridge , copper engraving, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

literature

  • Ulrich Thieme (ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Leipzig, 1912.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall II - The 18th Century to 1790 . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1983, ISBN 3-7023-4012-2 , p. 29
  2. ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Leipzig, 1928, XXII, 367f.
  3. ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: * Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Wien , Verlag Styria , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 19.
  4. ↑ on rijksmuseum.nl , accessed on January 22, 2013

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SURNAME Pegna, Hyacinth de La
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French battle and vedute painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH 1772
Place of death Rome