Jacques-André-Joseph Camelot Aved

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The composer Jean-Philippe Rameau , portrait by Jacques-André-Joseph Camelot Aved

Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot Aved or Avet (born January 12, 1702 in Douai , today the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region , † March 4, 1766 in Paris ) was one of the leading portraitists of the French Rococo , art collector and art dealer .

life and work

Camelot Aved, also known as "le Camelot" or "le Batave ", was born in Douai in Flanders , the son of a doctor. After his father's early death, his mother married a Dutch officer and the family moved to Amsterdam . He received his training there with Boitard and Bernard Picart , and from 1721 onwards in Paris with Alexis Simon Belle . He was friends with his students Carle van Loo , François Boucher , Dumont le Romain and especially Jean Siméon Chardin . He developed the concept of the "psychological portrait". In 1731 he became a free and in 1734 a full member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ; In 1734 he took over the function of a councilor there. Aved took part in a salon for the last time in 1759 .

Aved owned an important art collection that included works by his French contemporaries as well as older Italian and, above all, Dutch masters. He also worked as an art dealer. His collection was auctioned in Paris in 1766.

Aved portrayed Madame de Crozat (1741, Musée Fabre , Montpellier ), the Dutch governor William IV of Orange (1751, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam ) and the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau ( Musée des Beaux-Arts , Dijon ), among others .

His pictures are now in numerous French museums such as the Louvre , the Dijon Art Museum , the Nantes Art Museum , the Musée Condé in Chantilly , the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles , but also in the Netherlands.

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SURNAME Aved, Jacques-André-Joseph Camelot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Avet, Jacques-André-Joseph Camelot; le Camelot (nickname); le Batave (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Douai
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1766
Place of death Paris