Jean-Pierre Houël
Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël (born June 28, 1735 in Rouen , † November 14, 1813 in Paris ) was a French painter , engraver and draftsman who worked in the style of Dutch and Flemish painting. At the age of 15 he attended the École supérieure d'art et design Le Havre - Rouen under Jean-Baptiste Descamps . Under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas he learned copper engraving in Paris. For Étienne-François de Choiseul , he made the paintings in the overhangs in Chanteloup Castle in 1769 . In his paintings Houël documented the reign of Louis XV ., The end of Louis XVI. , the French Revolution under Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the reign of Emperor Napoleon I. He was a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture , the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen and the Parisian Masonic Lodge Neuf Sœurs .
literature
- Théodore-Éloi Lebreton: biography rouennaise . Rouen 1865, p. 190-191 (French).
- Maurice Vloberg: Jean Houël, peintre et graveur, 1735-1813 . Paris 1930 (French).
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-Pierre Houël in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91011648.html
- https://viaf.org/viaf/9945691/
- https://www.idref.fr/033795274
- https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500028641
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Houël, Jean-Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Houël, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter, engraver and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1735 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rouen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1813 |
| Place of death | Paris |