Joseph Vivien

Portrait of the Bavarian Elector Max Emanuel in front of the city of Mons with a page (his filius illegitimus, later Comte de Baviére?)

Portrait of the architect Robert de Cotte by Joseph Vivien

Joseph Vivien (* 1657 in Lyon ; † December 5, 1734 in Bonn ) was a French portraitist who stood out primarily through pastel painting .

Life

Born in Lyon, he was baptized on March 30, 1657. At the age of 20 he became a student of François Bonnemer (1638–1689) and Charles Le Brun in Paris . In 1698 he became a provisional member (French: agréé ) at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, 1701 member and 1703 Conseiller.

Probably through the mediation of Agnes Le Louchier , he worked for the first time in Brussels for Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria in 1699 . In 1704 he was in Brussels again, in 1706 and 1710 he stayed in Munich . From 1712 he lived again in Paris and after 1716 again in Munich. In the meantime he worked for the Electors of Cologne , first for Max Emanuel's brother Joseph Clemens and from 1721 in Münster for Clemens August , Max Emanuel's son. Hence his stays in Bonn in 1719 and 1734.

Create

Vivien is one of the most important pastel painters. A contemporary called it the " Van Dyck du siècle pour le pastel ". He was the second portraitist ever to specialize in pastel painting and thus received admission to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture . In Munich he carried the title of Premier peintre of the Bavarian Elector Max Emanuel.

As a portraitist of the European nobility, he mostly worked in Paris and at the Wittelsbacher Höfe in Brussels, Bonn and Munich. In Munich he lived and worked alongside other court artists in the Herzog-Max-Burg .

Works (selection)

Prince Philip Moritz of Bavaria (1698–1719), son of the Bavarian Elector Max Emanuel

• Portrait of the sculptor François Girardon . Paris, Louvre.
• Portrait of the architect Robert de Cotte . Paris, Louvre.
• Self portrait. Florence, Uffizi Gallery. (Painted in 1699 on behalf of the Bavarian Elector Max Emanuel for Cosimo III. Grand Duke of Tuscany.)
• Portrait of Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria, 1706, Munich, Residenzmuseum.
• Portrait of Cardinal Joseph Clemens of Bavaria , Elector of Cologne. Valenciennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts.
• Portrait of Karl Albrecht, Elector of Bavaria . Munich, Residenz Museum.
• Portrait of Agnes Le Louchier , Countess Arco. Munich, Bavarian National Museum.
• Portrait of François Fénelon , Archbishop of Cambrai. Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek
• Portrait of Clemens August , Elector and Archbishop of Cologne. Falkenlust Castle near Brühl.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

• Helmut Börsch-Supan : Joseph Vivien as court painter to the Wittelsbach family. In: Munich Yearbook of Fine Art, Vol. XIV. Munich 1963.
• Gisbert Knopp: Joseph Vivien. Portraitist of the Archbishops of Cologne, Joseph Clemens and Clemens August. New acquisition of a portrait painting for Clemensruhe Castle in Bonn-Poppelsdorf = publication series of the Förderverein StadtMuseum Bonn eV 1. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2010. ISBN 978-3-88462-294-0
• NN: Elector Max Emanuel, Bavaria and Europe around 1700 . Catalog Schleissheim Palace. Munich 1976.
• Horst Stierhof in: The Wittelsbachers and their artists in eight centuries. Munich 1980.
• Administration of State Palaces and Gardens: Courtly Images of the Late Baroque . Catalog Charlottenburg Palace. Berlin 1966.

Web links

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