Jean Pierre Sauvage

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Jean Pierre Sauvage (born April 11, 1699 in Luxembourg , † September 27, 1780 in Brussels ) was a Dutch portrait painter .

Life

Portrait of Karl Josef Batthyány, HGM

Jean Pierre Sauvage was a well-known portrait painter of his time and was court painter to Karl Alexander of Lorraine . In 1736 he was accepted into the Brussels Guild of St. Luke as an “étranger”, ie as a “foreigner” (that is, not from Brussels) . In addition, Jean Pierre Sauvage received the title of court painter to the Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna, where he probably came into contact with the local aristocratic circles. This is how the portrait of Field Marshal Karl Josef Batthyány , which is now in the Army History Museum in Vienna, was created.

Today, the works of Jean Pierre Sauvage are scattered across half of Europe. a. in Niedersgegen , Brussels, Ostend , Oschatz , Braunschweig , Vienna and Florence .

Works

  • Portrait of Prince Karl Batthyany . Oil on canvas, 1748, 137 × 113 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.
  • Portrait of Karl Alexander of Lorraine as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order , oil on canvas, Lucklum Castle .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Matagne: Le peintre Jean-Pierre Sauvage , Biographie nationale Fascicule 15, 1967.
  2. ^ Paul de Zuttere: Les deux Sauvage, peintres à Bruxelles au XVIIIe siècle , L'Intermédiaire des Généalogistes , № 128, 1967.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig, 1935, Volume XXIX, p. 499.
personal data
SURNAME Sauvage, Jean Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1780
Place of death Brussels