Joseph-Benoît Suvée
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Awards | Prix de Rome (1771) |
Joseph-Benoît Suvée (3 January 1743 – 9 February 1807) was a
Biography
Suvée was born in Bruges. Initially a pupil of Matthias de Visch, he came to France aged 19 and became a pupil of Jean-Jacques Bachelier. In 1771, he won the Prix de Rome. In Rome from 1772 to 1778, he prolonged the usual duration allowed to pensionaries of the French Academy in Rome. He was named an academician on his return to Paris and he opened an art school for young women at the Louvre. One of his students was Constance Mayer. He emulated and competed with Jacques-Louis David, earning his enduring hatred.
Named the French Academy in Rome's director in 1792, replacing
His works include Achilles depositing the body of Hector at the feet of the body of Patroclus, (1769, Louvre), and Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, (1795, Louvre).
His pupils were Jean-Baptiste Joseph Autrique (1777–1853),
Selected paintings
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The Predication of
Saint Paul -
Gracchi
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Erminiaand the Shepherds
References
- RKD
- ^ Profile at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.
- ISBN 978-0-87413-734-7.