Patroclus (painting)
Male nude, called Patroclus ( French : Académie d'homme, dit Patrocle ), is an oil painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825). It was written in Rome around 1780 and shows Patroclus , Achilles' lover .
The work hangs in Cherbourg-Octeville .
Image description
It is an unusual picture because it does not show a face. The artist's focus is solely on the anatomy of the body, on the muscles that are tense due to the position. The focus is not on the representation of the person, but on the mastery of the painter.
The work has a size of 121.5 × 170.5 cm and was painted in oil on canvas.
genesis
In 1774 David received the first prize of the Prix de Rome , a grant for a stay of several years in Rome, for the painting The Doctor Erasistratos Discovered the Cause of Antiochus' Disease . His teacher Joseph-Marie Vien was appointed director of the Académie de France à Rome at the same time . Teachers and students traveled to Rome together. There David devoted himself above all to the study of antiquity and that of the Italian masters of the High Renaissance . Among other things, he dealt with male files, a Hector and the objective Patroclus .
The figure of Patroclus and his tragic death seems to have particularly inspired the painter, as the oil painting The Burial of Patroclus and the aforementioned Hector were also created in Rome . This had killed Patroclus and had been killed in return by Achilles.
Location, exhibitions
The nude was shown for the first time at the Salon de Paris in 1781. The painting is part of the collection of the Musée des beaux-arts Thomas Henry in Cherbourg , Inv. 835.102. It was shown at a David retrospective in the Louvre in Paris and in numerous thematic exhibitions at home and abroad:
- 1955: Ingres et ses maîtres , from Roques to David, Toulouse (Musée des Augustins) and Montauban (Musée Ingres)
- 1989–90: David , Paris ( Musée du Louvre )
- 1990: Entre des dieux et des héros , Copenhagen ( Statens Museum for Kunst )
- 2002: Neoclassicismo in Italia , Milan
- 2004: Il nudo tra ideal e realtà , Bologna ( Galleria d'Arte Moderna )
- 2005–06: Au delà du maître, Girodet et l'atelier de David , Montargis (Musée Girodet)
- 2009: La peinture française au XXe siècle, Académisme et modernité , Shimane and Yokohama
- 2012: Artistes et amateurs français à Rome , Caen (Musée des Beaux-arts)
- 2013–14: Male / Male Naked Men from 1800 to Today, Vienna ( Leopold Museum ), Paris ( Musée d'Orsay )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Musée d'Orsay : Jacques Louis David (1748–1825): Académie d'homme, dit Patrocle , accessed on November 6, 2019
- ↑ Valentine von Fellenberg: Crossing borders and academic fiasco: Hans Jakob Oeri and Swiss Art Creation in the 19th Century , de Gruyter 2017, 505
- ^ Musée d'Orsay : Male / Male. Naked men from 1800 to today. , September 24, 2013 to January 12, 2014