Jean Preudhomme

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Franz Rudolf Frisching in the uniform of a colonel of the Bernese hunters with his Bernese hound , painted by Jean Preudhomme, 1785

Jean Preudhomme or Preud'ho (m) me or Prudhomme (baptized November 23, 1732 in Rolle ; buried July 20, 1795 in La Neuveville ) was a Swiss painter.

life and work

Jean Preudhomme studied in Paris with the famous painters Jean Baptiste Leprince and Jean-Baptiste Greuze . Preudhomme worked as a genre and landscape painter, as a portraitist and animal painter. He also worked as a draftsman. However, his specialty was portraiture . In Switzerland he worked mainly in Geneva , Lausanne , Neuchâtel and Bern . From 1782 to 1786 he was referred to in a Swiss publication as a “portraitist à la mode”. Works, especially portraits by this painter, are rarely offered in stores.

The collection of the National Museums of Scotland contains the painting from 1774: Portrait of Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton , on his Grand Tour with his Physician Dr John Moore and the Latter's son John . In the background of this painting you can see the city of Geneva , where Preudhomme painted the painting. The Duke of Hamilton and his companions lived in Geneva for two years.

In 1789 Preudhomme made a portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm II . The portrait is in the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Neuchâtel. Preudhomme presumably used a life-size portrait of the king as a template for the portrait, which the governor of Béville had given the city of Neuchâtel in 1788 for the new town hall.

The Rath Museum has a portrait of a woman by Preudhomme.

Web links

Commons : Jean Preudhomme  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Swiss Artist Lexicon , Volume 1, p. 574.
  2. ↑ This painting was purchased in 1992 for the National Museums of Scotland with the help of the Art Fund UK . The total purchase price was £ 125,000. The Art Fund contributed £ 10,000.
  3. ↑ James Carrick Moore: Life of Sir John Moore , London, 1834. James Carrick Moore (1763-1834) was a brother of Sir John Moore.

literature

  • Carl Brun: Swiss artist lexicon. Volume 2, Frauenfeld 1905.
personal data
SURNAME Preudhomme, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prudhomme, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized November 23, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH role
DATE OF DEATH buried July 20, 1795
Place of death La Neuveville