Louis de Silvestre

Jean-Baptiste Greuze : Portrait of Louis de Silvestre, oil on canvas, 1753

Maurice Quentin de La Tour : Portrait of Silvestre, pastel on paper, 1753

August the Strong, King of Poland and Saxony, painted by de Silvestre

Louis de Silvestre (born June 23, 1675 in Sceaux , † April 11, 1760 in Paris ) was a French painter .

Life

Louis was the youngest son of the painter Israël Silvestre . He first received lessons from his father. Silvestre later studied at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture with Charles Lebrun and Bon Boullogne .

In 1712 de Silvestre became deputy rector of the Académie Royale in Paris. In 1716 he traveled to Dresden at the invitation of the Elector and King Augustus the Strong , where he worked as a court painter for more than thirty years . He was appointed chief court painter and ennobled. In addition to an abundance of portraits, he created ceiling paintings in the Brühlschen Palais , the Japanese Palais and the Mathematical-Physical Salon of the Zwinger . In 1727 he became director of the painting academy in Dresden. On his return to Paris, de Silvestre was rector of the Académie Royale in 1752.

Works (selection)

literature

Harald Marx : Silvestre, Louis de. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 418-420 ( digitized version ).
Olczak, Dorota Ewa: Louis de Silvestre (1675–1760) as a portrait painter in Dresden: on models and models of his art with a critical catalog of works ; Part 1; [Part 2] / presented by Dorota Ewa Olczak. - [Microfiche edition] 2013. - 167, 422 pp., Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2013
Hoof, Carolin: Ed io anche son pittore: excerpts from the transcription and editing of the "Observations sur le mérite des ouvrages des peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs" by Louis de Silvestre; scientific thesis in French / submitted by Carolin Hoof. - Technical University Dresden. - April 2010.

Web links

Commons : Louis de Silvestre - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Biography ( Memento of September 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
artnet.de Louis de Silvestre

Individual evidence

↑ Harald Marx: Silvestre, Louis de. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 418-420 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Silvestre, Louis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 23, 1675
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sceaux
DATE OF DEATH	April 11, 1760
Place of death	Paris

[1] Harald Marx: Silvestre, Louis de. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 418-420 ( digitized version ).