Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen
Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen | |
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Born | 17 August 1720 |
Died | 4 January 1778 | (aged 57)
Parent | Francois Eisen |
Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (17 August 1720 – 4 January 1778) was a French painter and engraver.
Life
The son and pupil of
Frans Eisen, he was born at Valenciennes. In 1741, he went to Paris, and in the following year entered the studio of Le Bas. His talent and his sparkling wit gained him admission to the court, where he became painter and draftsman to the King, and drawing-master to Madame de Pompadour. He afterwards fell into disgrace, and in 1777 retired to Brussels
, where he died in poverty in 1778.
His paintings are not without merit, but it is as a designer of illustrations and vignettes for books that he is best known. The most notable of these are the designs for the Fermiers généraux edition of the Contes of
Virgin, a St. Jerome, St. Ely preaching, etc. There are pictures by him in the Museums of Bordeaux, Alençon, and Bourg, and even at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in Tromsø, Norway.[1]
Gallery
References
- ^ "Combat d'un habitant de Finemarck contre un Ours". digitaltmuseum.no. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Eisen, Charles Dominique Joseph". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.