Pierre Gobert

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Louis XV as a child of Gobert

Pierre Gobert (born January 1, 1662 in Fontainebleau , † February 13, 1744 in Paris ) was a French court painter, known for his portraits.

Pierre Gobert was the son of the sculptor Jean II. Gobert . On October 16, 1681 he married his cousin Marie-Catherine Nivelon († November 19 or 20, 1723) in Fontainebleau. In the following years he possibly stayed in Munich, where he painted at court (Thoison). After unsuccessfully seeking admission in 1686, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Arts on December 31, 1701, after having submitted two portraits. In January 1724 he was elected to the council of the Academy to succeed the late M. Boyer. During the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV. he became a busy portraitist, especially for many high-ranking noble ladies of the court and their children. He provided his pictures with mythological references in the tradition of Pierre Mignard , but according to Engerand did not come close to Jean-Marc Nattier . Among those portrayed were u. a. the Prince of Condé , Tsar Peter I , Louis XV, Queen Maria Leszczyńska (for which he went to Weissenburg in Alsace in 1725 , where the former Polish king lived at that time), Louise-Elisabeth de Bourbon-Condé (Princess of Conty), Françoise Marie de Bourbon (Duchess of Orleans) and the Duchess of Maine .

At the end of the 19th century he was so forgotten that many of his paintings in the Versailles collection were attributed to unknowns or even other painters (such as Jean-Baptiste van Loo ). After Engerand, like a professional portrait photographer, he was forced to produce a large number of portraits in his studio, sometimes with 60 copies of the same painting, sometimes hastily made and of poor quality. He also took on such commissions in the years 1707 to 1709, for example, when he made multiple copies of portraits of his family for Duke Leopold of Lorraine or supervised their production.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pierre . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 279 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Henri Herluison: Gobert (Pierre) . In: Actes D'Etat-Civil D'Artistes Francais . Slatkine, Geneva 1972, p. 159–160 ( books.google.de books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ a b Fernand Engerand: Pierre Gobert, peintre de portrait. In: L'Artiste. March 1897, pp. 161-175.
personal data
SURNAME Gobert, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French court painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1662
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontainebleau
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1744
Place of death Paris