Louis-Aimé Grosclaude

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Louis-Aimé Grosclaude (born September 26, 1784 in Le Locle , † December 11, 1869 in Paris ) was a Swiss genre and portrait painter .

biography

Louis-Aimé Grosclaude came from a family of established watchmakers in Le Locle. After completing his training, he gave up his job and practiced painting still lifes as an autodidact . He came to Geneva in 1803 , where he learned the basics of painting under the guidance of a Dutch master. In 1805 he came to the Paris studio of Jean-Baptiste Regnault , professor at the École des beaux-arts de Paris . He visited the Louvre regularly to copy the Flemish and Italian masters there .

Regnault, realizing his talent, encouraged him to apply for the Prix ​​de Rome , but Grosclaude had to return to Switzerland for treatment sick. He came again to finish his training in Paris, but fell ill again in 1807 and settled in Geneva.

From 1816 he took part in the exhibitions of the Société des Arts and gained the reputation of a portrait painter, he continued to occupy himself with genre painting. In 1824 he married the painter Jeanne Pernette Jourdan, with whom in 1831 they had a son, Louis-Frédéric.

During his first visit to the Berlin Academy in 1826, he was elected a member. Around this time he met the English genre painter David Wilkie on a trip to the continent.

From 1827 Grosclaude regularly took part in the Paris Salon . In 1835 he received a third class medal for his painting entitled Toast à la vendange (1834), which was added to the royal collection. In the same year, he and his family settled permanently in Paris. There he received the second class medal in the salon of 1838 and the first class medal in 1845.

His large painting Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice (1842) was presented at the first exhibition of the Society of Friends of the Arts in Neuchâtel and donated to the local art museum by a wealthy private citizen.

From then on, he painted numerous portraits of personalities from Neuchâtel during his stays in his home country. The bourgeoisie often posed in his workshop, like the wealthy Baron James de Rothschild, who sent him the most important orders. A large number of these portraits then appeared in the Paris salon and established Grosclaude's reputation in society.

His students included u. a. François Bocion , Frédéric Zuberbühler and his son Louis-Frédéric Grosclaude .

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SURNAME Grosclaude, Louis-Aimé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Locle
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1869
Place of death Paris