Jean Michelin (painter, 1623)

Jean Michelin (also: Jean III Michelin ; * around 1623 in Langres ; † March 1, 1696 on the island of Jersey ) was a French painter and ducal Brunswick-Lüneburg court painter .

Life

Jean Michelin was a member of a Huguenot family and was born into a family of artists in the French city of Langres in the first quarter of the 17th century. He was a son of the painter of the same name Jean Michelin . He was the younger brother of the painter Jean Michelin , born in 1616, and of Charles Michelin.

Michelin trained in Paris before going to Italy on a study trip to Rome around 1650 . With his presentation of an "Allégorie du marriage du Roi aujourd'hui perdue" he was accepted into the Académie française on August 7, 1660 and initially made a career in Paris.

Charlotte Felicitas von Braunschweig-Lüneburg as Diana

Duke Johann Friedrich (1625–1679);
Oil painting by an unknown artist after Jean Michelin from the period between 1670 and 1680; owned by the Historisches Museum Hannover

From 1668 and - with interruptions - until 1886, Jean Michelin worked as a court painter in Hanover. In the royal seat of what was then the principality of Calenberg , he created numerous portraits of the Guelph family and members of the court society .

At first it was Duke Johann Friedrich , under whom the first list of paintings in the royal seat was made in 1779, who hired Jean Michelin as court painter in Hanover. This is how the paintings with the duke and his wife were created, while the couple's four daughters were depicted in a mythological context.

However, Michelin also provided designs for wallpapers to decorate the ducal palace. On the one hand, he was included in the directory of architects and artists of the Leineschloss . Mainly, however, he worked as a portrait painter, examples of which had been preserved in Herrenhausen Palace in particular .

As a contemporary of the Hanoverian court advisor Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Jean Michelin created a full-body picture of the regent with a knight's helmet of his employer Johann Friedrich as a baroque model for the painting created between 1670 and 1680 by an unknown artist, which found its way into the Hanover Historical Museum .

In 1674 Robert Nanteuil created an engraving after a painting by Michelin. After the monarch's death, Leibniz developed his own image program for the state funeral and brought the copper engraver Johann Georg Lange back to Hanover from Hamburg in order to document the event. In the illustrated book IIusta Funebria Serenissimo Principi Joanni Friderico Brunsvicensium Et Luneburge ... finally published in 1685, in addition to the copper engraving made by Robert Nanteuil after Jean Michelin from 1674, another 86 engravings by Johann Georg Lange based on images from Michelin were found.

literature

Thieme-Becker . Volume 24, Leipzig 1930, p. 529.

Web links

Commons : Jean Michelin (painter, 1623) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Henry Ronot : Richard et Jean Tassel. Peintres à Langres au XVIIe siècle. Nouvelles Éditions latines, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-7233-0409-2 , p. 38. (French; limited preview in Google Book Search)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hans Georg Gmelin : The bourgeois early baroque and art at the courts in Hanover and Braunschweig in the 17th century. In: Hans Patze (ed.): History of Lower Saxony. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 36). Volume 3, part 2: Church and culture from the Reformation to the beginning of the 19th century. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1983, ISBN 3-7848-3425-6 , pp. 756–765, here: p. 758. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
↑ George Troescher : Art and Artists walks in Central Europe, 800 - 1800. Contributions to the knowledge of German, French and Dutch art exchange. Volume 2: French and Dutch art and artists in the art of Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland. Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden 1954, p. 174. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
^ ^A ^b Georg Schnath : Directory of Architects and Artists. In: Helmut Plath , Georg Schnath, Rudolf Hillebrecht : Das Leineschloss. (= Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New series Volume 9, Issue 4, special issue Leineschloss ). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1956, pp. 198–202, here: p. 200. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
^ Thomas Sonar : The Councilor Leibniz - stranded in Hanover. In: The history of the priority dispute between Leibniz and Newton. History - cultures - people. (= From the counting stone to the computer. ). 1st edition. Springer Spektrum, Berlin / Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-48861-4 , pp. 234–249, here: captioning on p. 235. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
↑ Alheidis von Rohr : Dukes, Electors, Kings. The history of Hanover at a glance. In: Marieanne von König: Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , pp. 9–16, here: p. 7 and picture credits p. 281. ( limited preview in Google book search)
↑ Jill Bepler: Views of a State Funeral. Funeral works and diaries as a source of ceremonial practice. In: Jörg Jochen Berns , Thomas Rahn (ed.): Ceremonial as courtly aesthetics in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. (= Early modern times. Volume 25). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-484-36525-0 , pp. 183-197, here p. 188.
↑ Christoph Harer: "... quei concenti con lamenti". Italian musicians at the court of Johann Friedrich in Hanover. In: Heinz Duchhardt (Ed.), Zaur Gasimov (Red.): Yearbook for European History . published at the Institute for European History. Volume 11, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59784-4 , pp. 55, 76. ( limited preview in Google book search)
^ Digitized version of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
^ The Holy Roman Empire (partly in English) in Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Anne Simon: Festivals and ceremonies. A bibliography of works relating to court, civic and religious festivals in Europe. 1500-1800. Mansell, London et al. 2000, ISBN 0-7201-2182-5 , p. 42. ( limited preview in Google book search)

personal data
SURNAME	Michelin, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Michelin, Jean III (several times in literature to distinguish between the two painters of the same name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Parisian and Duke Brunswick-Lüneburg court painter
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1623
PLACE OF BIRTH	Langres
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 1696
Place of death	jersey

[Henry_Ronot-1] A ^b ^c Henry Ronot : Richard et Jean Tassel. Peintres à Langres au XVIIe siècle. Nouvelles Éditions latines, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-7233-0409-2 , p. 38. (French; limited preview in Google Book Search)

[Niedersächsische_Geschichte-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hans Georg Gmelin : The bourgeois early baroque and art at the courts in Hanover and Braunschweig in the 17th century. In: Hans Patze (ed.): History of Lower Saxony. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 36). Volume 3, part 2: Church and culture from the Reformation to the beginning of the 19th century. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1983, ISBN 3-7848-3425-6 , pp. 756–765, here: p. 758. ( limited preview in the Google book search)

[Tröscher-3] George Troescher : Art and Artists walks in Central Europe, 800 - 1800. Contributions to the knowledge of German, French and Dutch art exchange. Volume 2: French and Dutch art and artists in the art of Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland. Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden 1954, p. 174. ( limited preview in the Google book search)

[HGBl.1956_4-4] A ^b Georg Schnath : Directory of Architects and Artists. In: Helmut Plath , Georg Schnath, Rudolf Hillebrecht : Das Leineschloss. (= Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New series Volume 9, Issue 4, special issue Leineschloss ). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1956, pp. 198–202, here: p. 200. ( limited preview in the Google book search)

[5] Thomas Sonar : The Councilor Leibniz - stranded in Hanover. In: The history of the priority dispute between Leibniz and Newton. History - cultures - people. (= From the counting stone to the computer. ). 1st edition. Springer Spektrum, Berlin / Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-48861-4 , pp. 234–249, here: captioning on p. 235. ( limited preview in the Google book search)

[6] Alheidis von Rohr : Dukes, Electors, Kings. The history of Hanover at a glance. In: Marieanne von König: Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , pp. 9–16, here: p. 7 and picture credits p. 281. ( limited preview in Google book search)

[Staatsbegräbnis-7] Jill Bepler: Views of a State Funeral. Funeral works and diaries as a source of ceremonial practice. In: Jörg Jochen Berns , Thomas Rahn (ed.): Ceremonial as courtly aesthetics in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. (= Early modern times. Volume 25). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-484-36525-0 , pp. 183-197, here p. 188.

[8] Christoph Harer: "... quei concenti con lamenti". Italian musicians at the court of Johann Friedrich in Hanover. In: Heinz Duchhardt (Ed.), Zaur Gasimov (Red.): Yearbook for European History . published at the Institute for European History. Volume 11, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59784-4 , pp. 55, 76. ( limited preview in Google book search)

[9] Digitized version of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt

[10] The Holy Roman Empire (partly in English) in Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Anne Simon: Festivals and ceremonies. A bibliography of works relating to court, civic and religious festivals in Europe. 1500-1800. Mansell, London et al. 2000, ISBN 0-7201-2182-5 , p. 42. ( limited preview in Google book search)