Pierre Puget

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Monument to Pierre Puget in Marseille

Pierre Puget (* 16th October 1620 in Marseille ; † 2. December 1694 ) was a French painter (including marine painter), sculptor and architect of the Baroque .

Life

From 1640 to 1643 he was in Florence and Rome , where he also devoted himself to painting with Pietro da Cortona . He was involved in the painting of the Palazzo Pitti , but soon returned to France. He went to Toulon and Marseille , was the official painter of both cities and painted numerous altarpieces for churches in southern France in the 1650s. He then went to Rome again and from 1661 to 1668 and 1670 to Genoa , where he also had his son Francois trained by his friend Giovanni Battista Castiglione. During this time the painting style of Anthony van Dyck and Guido Reni woninfluence on him. In 1669 he went back to Toulon, where he became director of ship decorations at the royal shipyard. In 1679 he left the shipyard and turned to landscape drawings and mythological themes (Achilles and the Kentar Chiron, around 1685, Marseille, Musée des Beaux-Arts ). Most recently he was influenced by Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet . He died in Marseille in 1694.

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His artistic importance lies in his sculptural works, which are bold and passionate in movement, but thoroughly painterly and treated in the manner of Bernini . His main works, the groups Milon Fighting the Lion and Perseus Freeing Andromeda as well as The Resting Hercules and the high relief Alexander and Diogenes , are in the Louvre in Paris. His best-known works include the atlases under the honorary balcony of the old town hall of Toulon . Although he was one of the leading sculptors of his time in France and was influenced by the Roman high baroque like no other French painter of the time of Louis XIV, he remained isolated in Paris.

He also worked as a painter throughout his life and is known, among other things, for naval pictures and drawings, some of which were commissioned by Colbert.

Puget also worked as an architect in his hometown of Marseille. In 1666 he built a new building for the city's fish market, the Puget Hall - restored in its original form in 1987 . The Vieille Charité , the poor hospice in Marseille, was not completed until after Pugets death .

gallery

  • Milon von Kroton a Greek wrestler

  • Two warships, around 1674, Musée Bonnat, Bayonne

  • Achille and Chiron, around 1690, Marseille, Musée des Beaux-Arts

  • Pierre Puget (painted by his son François , oil portrait, Louvre)

  • Sea battle in front of Palermo 1676

  • Warship, 1670s, Musée Bonnat, Bayonne

  • Toulon, town hall, atlases

  • Perseus and Andromeda
    ( Musée du Louvre )

  • The Puget Hall in Marseille

literature

  • Klaus Herding : Pierre Puget. The pictorial work. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1970, OCLC 228036934 . 2nd edition: Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-7861-4041-3 . A . ISBN 3-7861-4041-3 .
  • Klaus Herding: Puget, Pierre. In: Kurt Fassmann (ed.): Kindler Painting Encyclopedia , Volume 10. German paperback publishing house, Munich, 1982, ISBN 3-423-05995-8 , DNB 830596224 .
  • Klaus Herding: Ship drawings in the work of Pierre Puget. In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Volume 29, 1966, p. 133
  • K. Latour in: Jacques Marie-L. Latour (Ed.): Le portrait en Provence de Puget à Cezanne. Exhibition catalog November - December 1961. Musée Cantini, Marseille 1961, OCLC 15665621 .
  • Francois Paul Albert: Pierre Puget. Rieder, Paris 1930, OCLC 503233871 .
  • Philippe Auquier: Pierre Puget, decorator naval et mariniste. DA Longuet, Paris 1907, OCLC 833734508 .
  • Léon Lagrange: Pierre Puget: peintre, sculpteur, architecte, décorateur de vaisseaux. Didier, Paris 1868, OCLC 763196523 .

Web links

Commons : Pierre Puget  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georges Reynaud: Origine et jeunesse marseillaise de Pierre Puget . In: Revue Marseille , No. 177, June 1966, p. 77
  2. ^ Klaus Herding: Puget, Pierre. In: Kurt Fassmann (ed.): Kindler Painting Encyclopedia , Volume 10. German paperback publishing house, Munich, 1982, ISBN 3-423-05995-8 , DNB 830596224 .
  3. ^ Jean-Marc Chancel: Pierre Puget architecte . Editions Parenthèses, Marseille 1997. ISBN 978-2-86364-840-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Puget, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, sculptor and architect of the Baroque era
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1694
Place of death Marseille