François Topino-Lebrun
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François Jean-Baptiste Topino-Lebrun (11 April 1764, in Marseille – 30 January 1801, in Paris) was a French painter and revolutionary. He worked in the Neo-Classical style and was said to be the favorite student of Jacques-Louis David.
Biography
His father was a furniture dealer and his uncle was a master
cabinet maker. He began his studies at the Académie de Marseille under the direction of Jean-Joseph Kapeller, one of its founding members. He went to Rome in 1784, where he met Jacques-Louis David, who was then working on the "Oath of the Horatii". Back in France, he settled in Paris where, from 1787 to 1790, he worked in David's studio at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. He returned to Rome from 1790 to 1792 and was one of group of artists who supported the French Revolution
.
Under threat by the authorities of the
Montagnards
) on an official mission to Switzerland.
He returned to Paris in 1797 and, troubled by the trial of the
Neo-Jacobin
organization, and painted "The Siege of Sparta", a call-to-arms to defend the Republic.
Later, he became a suspect in the
Napoléon that was apparently begun by a police agent in what would now be called a "sting operation". He was arrested on October 10, 1800, together with Dominique Demerville (a member of the Committee of Public Safety), Adjutant-General Joseph Antoine Aréna and the sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi. His trial took place shortly after the Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, attributed to the Jacobins, so a fair trial was less possible than usual. Despite repeated protests of his innocence and lack of evidence, he was found guilty and guillotined
on January 31, 1801.
Sources
- Philippe Bordes, "Documents inédits sur Topino-Lebrun", in the Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, 1976, pgs.289-300.
- Philippe Bordes and Alain Jouffroy :
- Guillotine et peinture : Topino-Lebrun et ses amis, Paris, Éditions du Chêne, 1977. ISBN 2-85108-134-9
- "Les Arts après la Terreur", in La Revue du Louvre, 1979, #3, pgs. 203-212.
- Guillotine et peinture : Topino-Lebrun et ses amis, Paris, Éditions du Chêne, 1977.
- "Topino-Lebrun, François Jean-Baptiste", in Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française, edited by ISBN 2-13-042522-4
- Émile Campardon, Histoire du Tribunal révolutionnaire de Paris 17 mars 1793-31 mai 1795, Poulet-Malassis, 1862
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to François Topino-Lebrun.
- Notes by Topino-Lebrun concerning the trials of Danton and Gallica
- "Topino-Lebrun et ses amis" (video, 13 minutes, in French) @ INA
- "Hommage à Topino-Lebrun 1- La Mort de Caïus Gracchus 2- La Vie et la mort du people" by Pompidou Centre.
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