Jean-Victor Schnetz
Jean-Victor Schnetz (born April 14, 1787 in Versailles , † March 15, 1870 in Paris ) was a highly respected French academic painter at the time.
biography
Schnetz learned in Paris under Jacques-Louis David . In 1837 Schnetz was accepted into the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 1841 he succeeded Ingres as director of the French Academy (Académie de France) in Rome . He initially held this position until 1846, then again from 1853 to 1866.
His grave is in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris .
Works
His first larger painting was The Good Samaritan (1819, Cathedral of Valence ), which Jeremias followed, weeping on the ruins of Jerusalem . In Italy Schnetz painted excellent genre pictures from folk life. Some historical paintings are less important, e. B. the picture of Joan of Arc (1835), that of the Connétable of Montmorency in the battle of St.-Denis (1836), the Mazarins on the death bed (in Luxembourg) and the large oil painting in the hall of the prefecture, which the Depicting battle in front of the Hôtel de Ville on July 28, 1830 . The best historical painting by the artist is St. Genoveva in the Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle church .
Paintings by Schnetz can be found in the Paris museums Louvre , Petit Palais and Musée d'Orsay , as well as in the Ermitage in St. Petersburg and in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco .
Schnetz's works have achieved good auction results on the art market in recent years. For example, the painting "Jeune paysanne napolitaine écoutant le petit berger jouer du fifre", estimated at € 2,000, only reached € 17,000 at an auction in Beaune in March 2005. Auctions in later years also generated revenues in the five-digit range for oil paintings by Schnetz.
bibliography
- Laurence Chesneau-Dupin (ed.), Jean-Victor Schnetz, 1787-1870. Couleurs d'Italie , Editions Cahiers du Temps (in French)
Web links
- Laurent Langer: Schnetz, Jean-Victor. In: Sikart
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schnetz, Jean-Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Versailles |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1870 |
| Place of death | Paris |