Jacques Augustin

Self-Portrait (1796)

Bacchante (1799). Miniature on ivory (8 cm).

Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (born August 15, 1759 in Saint-Dié , Département Vosges , † April 13, 1832 in Paris ) was a French painter . He became known for his portraits and miniatures .

Live and act

Augustin comes from a family of craftsmen: his father was a glazier. Augustine probably received his first artistic lessons from Jean-Baptiste Claudot (1733–1805) and later in Nancy possibly from Jean Girardet (1709–1778). In 1781 he spent some time in Dijon with Georges Nicolas Toussaint Augustin (1750– after 1800), called Augustin Dubourg, his older brother, in whose studio he probably also worked.

In the same year he traveled on to Paris . Here he finally settled and became one of the most famous miniature painters of his time thanks to his extremely precise and brightly colored portraits.

On July 8, 1800 he married his pupil Pauline Ducruet (1781-1865), a descendant of the writer Jean de La Fontaines (1621-1695). On the occasion of the exhibition in the Paris Salon of 1806, Augustin received a gold medal.

After Napoleon's abdication in 1814, King Louis XVIII appointed him . to his personal miniature painter (Peintre ordinaire du Cabinet du Roi, later Peintre des Affaires Etrangères and since 1819 Premier peintre en miniature de la Chambre et du Cabinet du Roi). Augustine retained this title even under his successor Karl X.

In the spring of 1832 Augustin fell ill in Paris during a cholera epidemic and died of this disease on April 13 of the same year. He found his final resting place in the Père Lachaise cemetery (Division 58).

Works (selection)

• Louis Hector Chalot de Saint-Mart
• Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé
• Madame de Kercado
• Laurence Geneviève Vanhee, née Devinck , wife of the banker
• Anne de Dorat, comtesse Coiffier de Moret
• Marquise de Ségonzac
• Louis Joseph Auguste Coutan
• General André Masséna
• General François-Joseph Westermann
• Napoleon I and his family
• Madame Récamier
• Charles Antoine Callamard , Louvre
• Antoine-Denis Chaudet
• Dominique-Vivant Denon
• Louis XVIII
• Charles Ferdinand d'Artois , duc de Berry
• King Louis-Philippe I.
• Marie Joseph Georges Rousse , President of the Chamber of Notaries in Paris

literature

Essays

• Pauline Augustin: Augustin. Notice sur sa vie et ses œuvres, par sa femme. In: Revue universelle des arts , Volume 15, 1862, p. 41 f.
• Fleuriot de Langle, Eveline Schlumberger: Augustin. In: Connaissance des Arts , number 69, November 1957, pp. 102-106, ISSN  0395-5893
• Paul Marmottan: Augustin, peintre sur émail. In: Bulletin de la société de l'histoire de l'art français , 1922, pp. 318–321.
• Grandidier Daniel: Itinéraire d'un miniaturiste: Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Augustin. In: Le Pays Lorrain , Volume 76, 1995, Number 3, pp. 197-202.
• Bernd Pappe: Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin et son atelier à Paris. In: Nicole Garnier-Pelle (Ed.): La miniature en Europe. Actes du colloque organized par la fondation pour la sauvegarde et le développement du domaine de Chantilly, Maison de Sylvie, October 10 and 11, 2007. Paris 2008, pp. 100-105.
• Bernd Pappe: Augustin Dubourg, Augustin fils / neveu et Joseph-Ange Augustin: trois artistes d'une même famille dans l'ombre de leur célèbre parent. In: Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard (Ed.): La miniature en Europe. The portraits de propagande aux oeuvres éléphantesques. Paris 2013, pp. 58–62.
• Bernd Pappe: Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin et Louis Febvrel, une amitié à distance mais de longue durée. In: Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard (ed.): Lettre de la miniature , number 18, 2013, pp. 3–5.
• Bernd Pappe: Le carnet d'esquisses de Pauline Augustin: quatre miniatures capitales et leurs dessins préparatoires. In: Nathalie Lemoine-Bouchard (ed.): Lettre de la miniature , number 31, 2015, pp. 3–8.
• Charles Peccatte: Jacques Augustin. In: Bulletin de la société philomatique vosgienne , Volume 39, 1913-1914, pp. 61-88, ISSN  1241-2767 .
• Albert Ronsin: Jacques Augustin . In the S. (Ed.): Les Vosgiens célèbres. Dictionnaire biographique illustré . Éditions Gérard Louis, Vagney 1990, ISBN 2-907016-09-1 .
• Gaston Save: Jacques Augustin. In: Bulletin de la société philomatique vosgienne , number 6, 1880–1881, pp. 91–102.
• Gaston Save: Jacques Augustin. In: Bulletin de la société philomatique vosgienne , number 7, 1881–1882, pp. 103–111.
• AV: Le miniaturiste Augustin. In: Revue de l'art français ancien et moderne , 1884, p. 140.

Exhibition catalogs

• Bernd Pappe (Ed.): Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin. Peintre in miniature . Saint-Dié des Vosges 2010, ISBN 978-2-9532029-6-0 (also catalog of the exhibition, Musée Pierre-Noël, April 17 to June 20, 2010).

Books

• Henri Bouchot: La Miniature française 1750-1825 . Édition Émile-Paul, Paris 1910 (first edition 1907).
• Camille Mauclair : Les Miniatures de l'Émpire et de la Restauration. Portraits de femmes . H. Piazza, Paris 1913.
• Bernd Pappe: Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin 1759–1832. Une nouvelle excellence in the art of portrait in miniature . Scripta, Verona 2015, ISBN 978-88-98877-23-2 .
• John L. Properties: History of Miniature Art . Macmillan, London 1887.
• Gaston Save: Augustin, miniaturist lorrain. Nancy 1888.
• George C. Williamson: History of Portrait Miniatures . Bell Books, London 1904 (2 volumes).
• George Charles Williamson: Catalog of the Collection of Miniatures in the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan. Volume 4, London 1908.

Web links

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