Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin (born March 25, 1783 in Toulon , † January 19, 1855 in Paris ) was a French painter of classicism .
Life
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin came from a humble background and grew up in Marseille , where he learned the craft of a locksmith from his father and began to paint in his free time. In 1802 he went to Paris and now devoted himself exclusively to painting. As an unpaid apprentice, he first worked for François-André Vincent and then was assistant to François Gérard . At the same time he sent his first work to the Salon de Paris . A biblical theme, Cain after Abel was murdered , was exhibited at the 1812 Salon.
Dominique-Vivant Denon commissioned him to decorate a ceiling in the Tuileries Palace in Paris, which however could not be carried out due to the restoration . After the return of the Bourbon monarchy , he worked on the restoration of the old paintings and the renovation of Versailles Palace in 1814 and 1815 . In 1817 he was able to exhibit the dead Jesus and Our Lady of Sorrows , surrounded by apostles and holy women. For this picture, which was intended for the Baltimore Cathedral , he received a gold medal and a number of other commissions from the religious and mythological fields, including: Christ at the feet of the Virgin (1819), Anchises and Venus (1822, Musée des Beaux -Arts de Nice ), Odysseus and Minerva (1824, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Rennes) ).
The image of Anchises and Venus drew the attention of Louis XVIII. on himself, for which the painter received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor as well as the opportunity to make an official portrait of the king in 1824. In 1828 he was appointed director of art studies at the training center of the Legion of Honor in Saint-Denis . He also gave drawing lessons in his Paris studio on Rue du Mont-Thabor in the 1st arrondissement , where he took Vincent Courdouan (1810-1893), who, like him, came from Toulon, as a pupil. Under Louis-Philippe he painted, among others, The Death of Jesus , Saint Catherine (1838, Church of St-Roch in Paris) and The Conversion of Saint Augustine (1844).
Guérin's style is assigned to classicism , which in France is called neo-classicisme . As a portrait painter he achieved his greatest successes, in particular with the portraits of Charles Nodier and Félicité de Lamennais . After his death on January 19, 1855, some of his works were shown at the Paris World Exhibition in 1855 .
He is not related to his contemporaries of the same name, Pierre Narcisse Guérin and Jean-Urbain Guérin .
literature
- André Alauzen, Laurent Noet: Dictionnaire des peintres et sculpteurs de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur . Jeanne Laffitte, Marseille 2006, ISBN 978-2-86276-441-2 , pp. 350-351.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guérin, Jean-Baptiste Paulin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French classicism painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1783 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulon |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1855 |
| Place of death | Paris |