Nicolas François Octave Tassaert
Nicolas François Octave Tassaert (born June 26, 1800 in Paris , † April 24, 1874 there ) was a French painter .
Life
Octave Tassaert, grandson of especially in Berlin working sculptor Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert , son of the engraver Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert , came from an originally Flemish family of artists who worked mainly in Paris. Together with his brother Paul Tassaert , he first made wood engravings . In addition, he studied painting from 1817 to 1825 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with professors Alexis-François Girard (1787–1870) and then with Guillaume Guillon Lethière . From 1823 to 1824 he worked purposefully towards the Prix de Rome , but could not win it, which shook his self-confidence so badly that he returned to wood engraving and lithography as a commercial artist for almost twenty years . It was during this time in particular that his numerous erotic lithographs for collectors were created. He also illustrated books for Victor Hugo , Alexandre Dumas the Elder , François-René de Chateaubriand and others.
He started painting again and exhibited in Paris salons , with modest success. This was not least because he often dealt with issues from the misery of poor people that hardly fit into a middle-class living room. Alfred Bruyas and Alexandre Dumas the Younger appreciated his art and also bought some works, but he became more and more addicted to alcohol. In 1863 he sold his stock of pictures to the art dealer Père Martin and now tried his hand at becoming a poet, without success. Hardly any manuscript has survived, so that the assumption is that he destroyed his manuscripts himself. The excessive consumption of alcohol also clouded his eyesight. In 1874 he ended his life on his own.
Paintings (selection)
- Scrooge's funeral
- Versailles
- Night watch in the catacombs (museum in Bordeaux)
- Heaven and Hell Musée Fabre , Montpellier
- The Temptation of Saint Hilarion , around 1857, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
gallery
The Forsaken 1852, Fabre Museum, Montpellier
Suicide 1852, Fabre Museum, Montpellier
The Jealous Cat Lithograph
The careful mistress lithograph
literature
- Nicolas François Octave Tassaert . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 28 : Syrten-vikarna – Tidsbestämning . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1919, Sp. 508 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Octave Tassaert in the artcyclopedia
- Biography of the Cleveland Museum of Art
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tassaert, Nicolas François Octave |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tassaert, Octave |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1874 |
| Place of death | Paris |