Étienne Jeaurat
Étienne Jeaurat (9 February 1699, in
Early life
Born in Vermenton near Auxerre, Jeaurat became an orphan at an early age. His brother, the engraver Edme Jeaurat, entrusted him to Nicolas Vleughels, a friend of Antoine Watteau, who was appointed director of the Académie de France in Rome in 1724. Vleughels took Jeaurat to Rome for an extended stay, exerting considerable influence on his work.[2]
Career
After returning to Paris, Jearat became a member of the
Work
He achieved considerable success with his
He was adept at painting lively scenes in the streets of Paris such as The girls of pleasure at Salpétrière driven through the Porte St-Bernard (1755) showing prostitutes being transported to the Salpétrière prison. He also painted a series of eight works depicting scenes from La Fontaine's fables as well as religious works.[2][5]
Selected works
- Laban Searching his Daughters (1737), Oil on canvas, 15x33 cm, Hermitage Museum[6]
- Recovering (1744), Oil on canvas, 43.5x32.5 cm, Hermitage Museum[6]
- Interior with two Women (c 1740), Oil on canvas; 61 x 51 cm, Ashmolean Museum.
- Bath o Women (1741), Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 52,5 cm, Musée de Bordeaux.[7]
- The girls of pleasure at Salpétrière driven through the Porte St-Bernard (1755), Musée Carnavalet
References
- ^ "Étienne Jeaurat", Encyclopédie Larousse. (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2012.
- ^ a b "Turquerie - Etienne Jeaurat", Ville de Namur. (in French) Retrieved 26 April 2012.
- ^ Hervé Chayette, Le Vin à travers la peinture, Courbevoie, ACR, 1984, p. 264 (in French)
- ^ Ella Snoep-Reitsma, Chardin and the Bourgeois Ideals of his Time, in: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ) / Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art, Vol. 24 (1973), p. 158
- ^ "Ètienne Jeaurat", Art Directory. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
- ^ a b "Jeaurat", Hermitage Digital Collection. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
- ^ "Etienne Jeaurat", Musée de Bordeaux. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
External links
- Media related to Étienne Jeaurat at Wikimedia Commons