Joseph Ferdinand Boissard de Boisdenier

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Joseph Ferdinand de Boissard Boisdenier or short Fernand Boissard (* 4. March 1813 in Châteauroux , Indre , † December 1866 in Paris ) was a French painter of romanticism . He was a student of Gros and Devéria .

The painting "Episode de la Retraite de Russie"

Boissard made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1835 with a large painting (1.60 m high, 2.25 m wide, oil on canvas ), which immediately caused a sensation. Due to the recent history of France , the atmospheric, dramatic scene touched the audience at the time: in the twilight, lying in the snow, two dying soldiers crouch on a dead horse. The remains of the Grande Armée are scattered around : a cannon, a wheel, a tattered knapsack ... The picture is a symbol of the horrors of the withdrawal from Russia . The painting is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen .

At the same time a poet and a musician , Boissard was only able to gain a certain fame as a painter through this remarkable picture . Like other Romantic painters, Boissard was inspired by a critical view of the Napoleonic epic (" légende noir ").

Boissard can be seen in direct descent from his teacher Antoine-Jean Gros . The snow-covered foreground is reminiscent of Gros' " Napoléon on the battlefield of Prussian-Eylau ". But the student outdid the master. For the exhibition in the Paris Salon of 1835, Gros presented a work based on a mythological theme . While he was generally rejected for this, Boissard was celebrated.

Boissard was also influenced by Géricault . This can be seen, for example, in the soldier's emaciated head, which bears similarities to Géricault's depiction of soldiers wounded in war . The dead horse is also very close to the style of one of Géricault's lithographs .

Connection with the "Club des hachichins"

Boissard is associated with the " Club des hachichins ", a group that existed from 1844 to 1849, and the numerous scientists , writers and artists (including Théophile Gautier , Charles Baudelaire , Alexandre Dumas , Eugène Delacroix , Honoré de Balzac , Gérard de Nerval , Honoré Daumier , James Pradier and Gustave Flaubert ). They met monthly with him, at the Hôtel de Lauzun (also known as the Hôtel Pimodan ) on the Île Saint-Louis , a small island on the Seine , where the psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph Moreau , who systematically examined the effects of intoxicating drugs on the central nervous system , Dawamesk (an unusually highly concentrated hashish jam) and opium . .

gallery

  • Fernand Boissard (1835) Episode de la Retraite de Russie

  • Fernand Boissard (1841) Hétaïre offer

literature

  • Renate Treydel: Boissard, Joseph-Ferdinand . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 321.
  • Boissard de Boisdenier, Joseph Ferdinand . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 3 : Benzene Derivatives Brides . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1915, p. 584 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Joseph Ferdinand Boissard de Boisdenier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ciaran Regan: Intoxicating Minds: How Drugs Work . Columbia University Press, June 19, 2012, ISBN 978-0-231-53311-9 , pp. 134-.
personal data
SURNAME Boissard de Boisdenier, Joseph Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boissard, Fernand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and musician of the Romantic era
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Chateauroux
DATE OF DEATH December 1866
Place of death Paris