Joseph-Noël Sylvestre

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Awarded the Prix ​​du Salon in 1876 : Locusta tests the poison prepared for Britannicus in Nero's presence (original in color)

Joseph-Noël Sylvestre (born June 24, 1847 in Béziers in the Hérault department , † 1926 ) was a French history , genre and portrait painter . Other spellings of his first names are Joseph Noël , Joseph-Noel and Joseph Noel .

Between 1869 and 1876, Sylvestre received awards for some of his history paintings. However, from around the beginning of the 20th century, his historical style was no longer considered contemporary, and today Sylvestre is little known.

Life

The Death of Seneca (1875)
Detail of the sack of Rome by the barbarians 410 (1890)
Small-format wine painting from the later years:
A good drop!

Sylvestre began his artistic training in Toulouse , where he copied, among other things, Thomas Couture's Thirst for Gold ( Soif de l'or ). At the École des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) in Paris he became a student of Alexandre Cabanel , from whom he was trained in the style of Academic Realism ("art pompier").

In 1869 he won for his painting Soldier of Marathon (Soldat de Marathon, now in the Musée d'Art et Histoire in Auxerre ) third in the Prix de Rome , a prestigious multi-year art scholarship including Rome residence. In 1875 and 1876 Sylvestre was awarded the second and first class medals. In 1876 he was awarded the Prix ​​du Salon at the Salon de Paris for the painting Locusta tests the poison prepared for Britannicus in Nero's presence . The French state and buyers from all over Europe were interested in Sylvestre's works.

His success led Sylvestre to a trip to Rome, where he designed his monumental painting The Last Moments of Emperor Vitellius (presented in the Salon de Paris in 1878). In the following years Sylvestre created other large-format works with historical, sometimes spectacular and bloodthirsty motifs, some of which also bore patriotic features (1888 The Gaul Ducar beheads the Roman General Flaminius in the Battle of Lake Trasimeno , 1884 The murder of Trencavel , 1893 François Rude at work on the Arc de Triomphe ). These paintings include The Sack of Rome by the Barbarians in 410 (1890), in which Sylvestre linked the fall of the civilization of Ancient Rome with the memory of the history of his native region ( Gallia Narbonensis ). Sylvestre later switched from his historicizing Roman and Visigoth motifs to depictions of musketeers and wine consumption in the style of Ernest Meissonier and Ferdinand Roybet .

In 1967 the Museum of Fine Arts in Sylvestre's hometown of Béziers acquired 97 drawings by the painter. The museum also owns several paintings. In 2005 it dedicated a retrospective to Sylvestre.

Works

Well-known works by Sylvestre include:

  • 1873 - Shepherd's game ( Le jeu des bergers )
  • 1875 - The death of Seneca ( La Mort de Sénèque )
  • 1876 ​​- Locusta tests the poison prepared for Britannicus in the presence of Nero ( Locuste essaye en présence de Néron le poison préparé pour Britannicus )
  • 1878 - The last moments of Emperor Vitellius ( Derniers moments de Vitellius César )
  • 1882 - The Gaul Ducar beheads the Roman General Flaminius in the Battle of Lake Trasimeno ( Le Gaulois Ducar décapite le général romain Flaminius à la bataille de Trasimène )
  • 1884 - The Assassination of Trencavel ( L'Assassinat de Trencavel )
  • 1890 - The sack of Rome by the barbarians in 410 ( Le Sac de Rome par les barbaren en 410 )
  • 1893 - Danton embraces his wife's body ( Danton embrasse le cadavre de sa femme )
  • 1893 - François Rude at work on the Arc de Triomphe ( François Rude travaillant sur l'Arc de Triomphe )

literature

  • Gérald Schurr: Les Petits maîtres de la peinture. Valeur de demain. 1820-1920 . Volume 6. Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-85917-047-2 , pp. 22-23 (= Les Petits maîtres de la peinture, Volume 6; French)
  • Nicole Riche (ed.), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Béziers (ed.): Joseph-Noël Sylvestre. Peintre pompier biterrois (1847-1926) . Béziers (Hérault / France) 2005. (Exhibition catalog: L'exposition a lieu à Béziers, Musée des Beaux-Arts, October 15 - December 31, 2005 ; 71 pages; French)

Web links

Commons : Joseph-Noël Sylvestre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph-Noël Sylvestre . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 27 : Stockholm-Nynäs järnväg – Syrsor . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1918, Sp. 1395 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ↑ a b c Jérôme Montcouquiol: Joseph-Noël Sylvestre Peintre pompier biterrois (1847-1926) . latribunedelart.com, November 19, 2005 (French). Retrieved February 3, 2008
  3. ^ John Denison Champlin Jr., Charles Callahan Perkins: Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings . Volume 4. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1887/1913, p. 249 (English)
  4. ^ Joseph-Noël Sylvestre. Peintre pompier biterrois (1847-1926) . L'exposition a lieu à Béziers, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 15 octobre - 31 decembre 2005; Béziers (Hérault / France). (French; exhibition catalog: see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Sylvestre, Joseph-Noël
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sylvestre, Joseph Noël; Sylvestre, Joseph-Noel; Sylvestre, Joseph Noel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French history, genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Beziers
DATE OF DEATH 1926