Jacques de La Fontaine (tapestry maker)

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Jacques de La Fontaine (* before 1668 ; † buried July 1, 1732 in Celle ) was a French tapestry maker and court decorator.

Life

Presumably from a Huguenot refugee family, Jacques de La Fontaine allegedly came from near Lyon as Marquis La Fontaine de Villefranche . In 1675 he was one of the first French to be brought to the Celle court by the Duchess Eleonore d'Olbreuse . Possibly in his second marriage, de la Fontaine married Anna Marie Schnabel, who also belonged to the Reformed community , or Anna Marie Schenabelle (buried in Celle August 14, 1734). The marriage possibly had six children born in Celle between 1686 and 1693, to which Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine, who was probably born earlier , must be added. From 1675 to 1705 Jacques de la Fontaine worked as a courtyard paper painter in the service of Georg Wilhelm , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . Around 1706 and in 1711 and 1712, de la Fontaine initially worked on furnishing the rooms of the Electorate of Hanover castles Gifhorn and Göhrde , and was also used together with - presumably his sons - Jean and Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine as "contrefaite" (upholsterers), respectively as a "contrefaiteur" (portrait painter).

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Jacques de la Fontaine lived in the house at Trift 25 in Celle.

He was buried on July 1, 1732 in the Neuenhäusener Kirchhof .

literature

  • Andreas Flick : Magnificent decoration: Celle courtyard papering artist Jaques Lafontaine decorated the rooms in Celle Castle , in: Sachsenspiegel. Supplement to the Cellesche Zeitung of December 7, 2019, p. 44
  • ders .: The Celle court paper maker Jaques Lafontaine . In Der Deutsche Huguenot / Huguenots . Volume 84, Issue 2, 2020. pp. 59–71 (with 5 illustrations)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hermann Mitgau : Common Life (= publication of the Family Studies Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen as well as neighboring East Westphalian areas ), Vol. 1: The family papers older part, 1500 to 1770 , Göttingen: [Self-published], 1955, p. 130; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ oV : Lafontaine, Georg Wilhelm in the database Niedersächsische people ( re-entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in version of 9 February 2016 last downloaded February 26, 2020
  3. ↑ Alheidis von Rohr : The Hanoverian cattle market on the Klagesmarkt in front of the Steintor, painted around 1745 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 61 (2007), pp. 139–143; here: p. 141
  4. ↑ Information about the page hugenottenbibliothek.de of the German Huguenot Society
personal data
SURNAME La Fontaine, Jacques de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fountain, Marquis La Fontaine de Villefranche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French and electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg tapestry maker and courtyard paper maker
DATE OF BIRTH before 1668
DATE OF DEATH 1732
Place of death Celle