Joseph Parrocel
Joseph Parrocel (* 3. October 1646 in Brignoles , today the Var in France ; † 1. March 1704 in Paris ) was a French painter of Baroque , who was known for his drawings and paintings of battles of his time and received his nickname Parrocel of Battalions .
Life
Parrocel comes from a family of artists who produced a total of 14 painters over a total of six generations from the 16th to the 18th centuries. He came into the care of his brother Louis, a painter already known in Languedoc , when his father died in 1660. With this he completed a painter training until he fled to Marseille after three years . There he worked as a painter and went to Paris for further training, where he stayed for four years.
He went to Italy via Provence for eight years and became a student of Jacques Courtois in Rome . The work in the studio of Salvator Rosa , a pre-romantic artist, influenced his future painting style. He made a round trip through Italy to Venice . However, he gave up his plans to settle there after escaping an attempted murder by eight robbers on the Rialto Bridge ,
After 1765 Parrocel gained some notoriety in Paris, was elected to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on February 29, 1676 and accepted on November 14, 1676 with his painting The Siege of Maastricht . Due to the intrigues of the Academy President Charles Lebrun , he did not succeed in bringing in his paintings of the battles of Louis XIV as drafts for large-format tapestries . The king's war minister, François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois , however, commissioned him to paint one of the dining rooms of the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris with scenes of the conquests of Louis XIV. Other commissions followed to decorate Marly-le-Roi Castle and the Palace of Versailles .
After the war minister's death in 1691, Parrocel had to struggle for a long time to get paid for his work in the Palace of Versailles. His picture Crossing the Rhine by the army of Louis XIV near Tolhuis from 1699 was hung in the Grand Salon du Conseil at the request of the king . Today it is in the Musée du Louvre in Paris .
The artist only took part in an exhibition once. That was in 1699 with a total of twelve paintings.
More than 90 of his engravings have been preserved, most of them in the Louvre from the bequest of the painter and manufacturer Charles-Frédéric Soehnée . Paintings from his hand hang in Paris in the Notre Dame des Victoires church , in the Hôtel de Soubise and in the Hôtel de Toulouse , the seat of the Banque de France . Some of the first baroque hunting paintings and scenes from the gallant world at the king's court are known by him. An oil painting on canvas in the format 70.8 × 111 cm, which is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig , bears the title Reiterschlacht .
Two of Parrocel's sons and two of his nephews learned painting from him.
literature
- 1968: Exhibition catalog: Les Peintres de Louis XIV. Lille
- 2005: Michel Lucas: L'œvre révélé de Joseph Parrocel: peintures murales from Invalides , Faton. Dijon ISBN 2-87844-078-1 .
- 2006: Jérôme Delaplanche: Joseph Parrocel, 1646-1704. La Nostalgie de l'Héroisme . Éditions Athéna, Paris, ISBN 2-903239-35-5 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parrocel, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Baroque painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1646 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brignoles , Var department , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1704 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |