Dominique Papety
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Dominique Louis Féréol Papety (12 August 1815 – 19 September 1849) was a French painter. He is best known for his canvases and drawings on Greek themes, both Classical and contemporary, and is considered an early member of the Neo-Grec movement.[1]
Biography
He was born in
He spent the years from 1837 to 1842 at the
Papety became a close friend of François Sabatier-Ungher, an art critic who was interested in antiquities. Together, they took a trip to Greece in 1846. He visited all twenty-three monasteries on Mount Athos, made hundreds of drawings and, the following year, published a combination travelogue and report in the Revue des deux Mondes titled Les peintures byzantines et les couvents de l'Athos; influenced by the ideas of Charles Fourier. Those ideas also inspired his best known painting: Le Rêve du Bonheur (Dream of Happiness).[1]
He took another trip to Greece, in 1847, and made sketches that were later used to decorate the
The disease ultimately proved to be fatal and he died in Marseille in 1849, aged only thirty-four.
A large selection of Papety's works was shown in a major exhibition at the French School at Athens in 1946, celebrating the school's centennial. A Street in Marseille has been named after him.
Gallery
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In the Bath, c 1835, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
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Greek Women at a Fountain, c 1841,Louvre Museum
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La République, c 1848, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
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Femmes à la fontaine, c 1839–1840, Musée Fabre
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Femmes à la fontaine, c 1840–1841, Musée Fabre
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Le duc de Montpensier visitant les ruines du temple de Jupiter à Athènes, c 1848, Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations
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The Odalisque
References
- ^ a b c d Biographical notes @ the Wallace Collection
- ^ Paul Masson (ed.), Encyclopédie départementale des Bouches-du-Rhône Vol.11, Archives départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseille, 1937
Further reading
- François Tamisier: Dominique Papety, sa vie et ses oeuvres: étude biographique et littéraire. Paris: ISBN 2-01-293913-9
External links
- Drawings and sketches by Papety @ the Base Joconde
- ArtNet: More works by Papety.
- "Les Peintures byzantines et les couvents de l’Athos" by Papety @ French Wikisource.