Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet

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Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet (* 1759 in Paris ; † 1842 ) was a French portrait and history painter of classicism .

Live and act

Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet was a student of Jacques-Louis David at the École des Beaux-Arts . In 1797 he was awarded the Prix ​​de Rome . Bouchet presented his works in the Salon de Paris until 1819 . Today most of his works are in the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence , the Musée de Picardie in Amiens , the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Angers , the Musée Municipal in Compiègne , the Institute of Arts in Detroit , the Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture in Grenoble and the Grand Trianon in Versailles performed and exhibited. The Detroit Works were part of a larger composition in which the family portrait forms the center.

The Odyssey of the Portraits of Napoléon and Joséphine

On behalf of Emperor Napoléon I , Bouchet made his portrait in 1807 as a counterpart to the work of Empress Joséphine , which Robert Lefèvre had created in 1805. Napoléon donated these two portraits to the city of Aachen on December 6, 1807 , the inauguration of which was held on June 1, 1809 with a solemn ceremony at which Maire Cornelius von Guaita and Prefect Jean Charles François de Ladoucette gave the laudatory speech.

After Napoléon's abdication, the two works were initially stored in a “shed”. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. finally ordered the paintings to Berlin because of their art-historical value. The two portraits were then packaged by the Aachen painter Johann Ferdinand Jansen and sent in December 1816 to the director of the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts Johann Gottfried Schadow in Berlin.

In the meantime, these portraits were also in the Berlin City Palace for a while . After the Mayor of Aachen, Edmund Emundts , visited King Friedrich Wilhelm IV on October 15, 1840 , Emundts received the paintings back on December 11 of the same year and had them displayed in the Aachen City Hall . A year later, Friedrich Wilhelm IV had Carl Schmid make copies of the portraits.

On February 12, 1878, they decorated the first exhibition of the Aachen Museum Association in the Redoute Komphausbadstrasse. As part of the establishment of his foundation for the establishment of an Aachen museum in 1882, the Aachen entrepreneur and art patron Barthold Suermondt set the condition that the paintings should be integrated into the inventory of the new museum. For many decades they were then in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum and from 2011 they will be hanging again in the council chamber of the Aachen town hall.

Works (selection)

Death of Cato the Younger

With this painting he won the Prix de Rome in 1797. This work is now in the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris

Portrait of Charles Henri Ver-Huell , French admiral
  • 1791 Daniel séparant le deux vieillards qui avaient accusé Suzanne - Daniel separates Susanne's two accusers , his debut in the Paris Salon .
  • 1797 death of Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger , Rome price
  • 1798 Le Portrait de la citoyenne Saint-Aubin dans le rôle de Lisbeth - Portrait of the citizen St. Aubin in the role of Lisbeth , Paris Salon
  • 1798 Portrait of Dillon, Examiner General of the New Weights and Measures.
  • 1798 portrait of Cessart, inspector general of bridges and roads
  • 1798 " Portrait of the Citizens of Perregot. "
  • 1800 Un Spartiate donnant des armes à son fils - Spartans armed his son and swore him to defend his fatherland
  • 1801 Cléobule teaches his daughter wisdom
  • 1802 Aria et Paetus se donnant la mort - Death of Arria and Pätus , Musée d'Amiens
  • 1804 An injured Roman soldier
  • 1804 Paris chooses the most beautiful
  • 1804 La Jeunesse entrainée par la Frivolité et retenue par l'Étude, allegory
  • 1806 portraits "
  • 1807 Napoléon pendant to Joséphine (1805) by Robert Lefèvre, City Hall in Aachen
  • 1808 L'entrevue de Saint Antoine et de Saint Paul dans le désert - Conversation of St. Anthony and Saint Paul in the desert
  • 1810 Portrait of the Comte de l'impire Bigot de Préameneu, Minister of Education
  • 1812 portraits
  • 1814 Homère déclamant ses poèmes - Homer reciting his chants , Musée d'Angers
  • 1817 Christ and Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross
  • 1819 Hazaël rendant Mentor à Télémaque - Mentor and Telemach , Musée de Grenoble
  • Auguste et Cinna , in the Grand Trianon
  • Louis XVIII Portrait in coronation attire, Musée d'Aix en Provence
  • Napoléon I as emperor portrait, Musée de Versailles; royal castle in Berlin
  • Hector Isabey (1797–1814), signed, oil on canvas, 141 × 98 cm (55.5 × 38.6 in). 1994 auction.
  • Eugenie Isabey (1803–1886), Oil on canvas, 141 × 98 cm (55.5 × 38.6 in). 1994 auction.
  • Alexandrine Isabey (1791–1871), Madame Charles Ciceri, signed, oil on canvas, 141 × 98 cm (55.5 × 38.6 in). 1994 auction.
  • Mme. H. and her children , 1815, oil on canvas, 165,4 × 122,6 cm (65 1/8 × 48 1/4 in). Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, 62.75 Seattle Art Museum The Collection Holocaust Provenance.
  • The three sisters . This work was donated by Leo M. Butzel to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1955 as a memory of his wife.
  • Family portrait oil on canvas, H 44 3/4 inches x W 28 3/8 inches. Donated to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1927 by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saur. General artist lexicon .
  2. ↑ Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 34, 1954, pp.?. Another portrait by Bouchet is in a private collection in Canada.
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Aachen, Friday, June 2, 1809. No. 231. Josef Lambertz: Aachen life in the mirror of newspaper reports. Volume 2: 1749-1943 - catalog and register -. Aachen 2005.
  4. ^ The message from Paul Kuetgens: "previously in a Paris gallery" is unclear. Paul Kuetgens (Ed.): Carl Borromäus Cünzer Foil des Dames. Illustr. Bert Heller. Aachen, 1932, pp. 50, 201f. Note 38.
  5. ^ Ernst Günther Grimme: The town hall of Aachen. Einhard, Aachen 1996, p. 121.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f "Dictionnaire general des artistes de l'ecole française." Vol. A-Dia
  7. ↑ Cinna (Corneille)

literature

  • Johannes Fey: On the history of Aachen painters of the 19th century . In: From Aachen's prehistory. Announcements from the association for customers of the Aachen prehistory . Volume 10, 1897, No. 4/8, pp. 70–72. Short biography of Schmid. P. 83f.
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler: New General Artist Lexicon , Vol. 2, Verlag EA Fleischmann, Munich 1835, pp. 81–82

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personal data
SURNAME Bouchet, Louis-André-Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French portrait and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1842