Jean-Baptiste Belin
Jean-Baptiste Belin (or Blain de Fontenay le Père ) (born November 9, 1653 in Caen , Normandy , † December 2, 1715 in Paris ) was a French painter of the Baroque period. He created numerous still lifes.
His teacher was Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer . After the Edict of Nantes was repealed in 1685, Belin had to choose whether to leave the country or convert. He converted to Catholicism and worked at the court of Louis XIV, for example for the tapestry manufacture . He was involved in the design of several castles, the Palace of Versailles , the Palace of Marly-le-Roi and the Palace of Fontainebleau .
At his age he was honored with an apartment in the Louvre . His son Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay II (1688-1730) worked in a similar style.
Belin's paintings can be found in the Élysée Palace , the Hôtel Matignon , the Louvre, the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge and the Getty Museum .
In the art market, up to $ 50,000 is paid for his oil paintings.
literature
- Sydney Herbert Pavière: Jean Baptiste Monnoyer: 1634-1699 , F. Lewis, Leigh-on-Sea, 1966, p. 19
- Nagler, Georg Kaspar, General Artist Lexicon , W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1885, p. 348.
Web links
- Jean-Baptiste Belin in the Joconde database (French)
- Information on the website of the Getty Museum
- Information on larousse.fr (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Page of an international auction house , accessed on March 15, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belin, Jean-Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1653 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caen , Normandy |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1715 |
| Place of death | Paris |