Jean-Joseph Balechou
Jean-Joseph Balechou (born July 11, 1715 in Arles , † August 18, 1765 in Avignon ) was a French engraver .
Life
Jean-Joseph Balechou was born in Arles to Jean Gatien Balechou from Tours and Catherine Chauvin from Arles. He began his training in Arles with the painter Philippe Sauvan, continued it in Avignon with the engraver J. Michel and completed it in Paris in the studios of Jacques-Philippe Le Bas and Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié . In 1748 Balechou received an order from the Dresden court. He was supposed to engrave a copper plate for printing the frontispiece to Heinecken's 1753 “Recueil des Estampes d'après les plus célèbres tableaux de la Galerie de Dresden”. After the delivery, he was embroiled in a lengthy process with the Dresden art agent who accused him of having made a large number of copper plates (there was talk of 500) for his own account. The process is said to have affected Balechou so much that he returned to Avignon.
Works
- Portrait of August, King of Poland, after Hyacinthe Rigaud
- The birth ( La Naissance ) after Michel-François Dandré-Bardon
Jean-Joseph Balechou made engravings a. a. according to the following artists:
- Philippe Canot (1715–1783)
- Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694–1752)
- Michel-François Dandré-Bardon (1700–1785)
- Étienne Jeaurat (1699–1789)
- Claude Lefèbvre (1633–1675)
- Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1695–1750)
- Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743)
- Jean François de Troy (1679–1752)
- Louis René Vialy (1680-1770)
literature
- Paul-André Lemoisne : Balechou, Jean-Joseph . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 405-406 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Jules Belleudy, JJ Balechou engraver Du Roi 1716–1764. 1908.
- Marcel Roux: Bibliothèque Nationale. Department of Estampes. Inventaire du Fonds français. Graveurs du dix-huitième siècle. Paris 1930. pp. 405-434.
- E. Benezit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Paris 1976, Volume 1, p. 400.
Web links
- Jean-Joseph Balechou on artnet
Individual evidence
- ^ Uwe Westfehling: Rococo and Revolution: French prints of the late 18th century. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1987, p. 21.
- ↑ Norberto Gramaccini, Hans Jakob Meier: T he art of interpretation. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2003, p. 131.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Balechou, Jean-Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baléchou, Jean-Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1715 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arles |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1765 |
| Place of death | Avignon |