Sébastien Bourdon
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Sébastien Bourdon (French pronunciation: Notre Dame.
Biography
Bourdon was born in
He lived in Paris from 1637 to 1652.[2] In 1648, Bourdon was one of the founders of the
French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and was elected as one of the original twelve elders in charge of its running.[3]
In 1652 he departed for Sweden, where Queen
Christina of Sweden made him her first court painter
.
Bourdon's facility rendered him adept at portraiture, whether in a dashing
capricci of ruins, mythological "history painting" like other members of Poussin's circle[6] or the genre subjects of the Dutch Bamboccianti who were working in Rome. His eclectic range of styles have given art historians exercise in tracing his adaptation of his models, while the lack of an immediately recognizable "Bourdon style" has somewhat dampened public appreciation. Some of his work was in the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism
.
Bourdon spent most of his working career outside France, where, though he was a founding member of the Académie royale, he was for long largely dismissed as a pasticheur, a situation partly rectified by a comprehensive exhibition in 2000 of his work at the Musée Fabre, Montpelier (whose collection includes a fine Lamentation painted in the last years of his life).
His success required the establishment of an extensive atelier, where his pupils included
Pierre Mosnier
. He died in Paris in 1671.
References
- ISBN 9780802838605.
- ^ a b Thierry Bayou, Bourdon, Sébastien, Grove Art Online.
- ^ Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture depuis 1648 jusqu'en 1664, Ed. Anatole de Montaiglon, Paris 1853, vol. I, p. 36.
- ^ Queen Christina on Horseback 1653, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
- Corfitz Ulfeldt, Frederiksborg, Denmark
- ^ The Finding of Moses, c. 1650, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Bacchus and Ceres with Nymphs and Satyrs, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, etc
Further reading
- Laureati, Laura, 1983. in Giuliano Briganti, Ludovica Trezzani, and Laura Laureati. The Bamboccianti: The Painters of Everyday Life in Seventeenth Century Rome (Rome) pp. 238–45
External links
Media related to Sébastien Bourdon at Wikimedia Commons- Sébastien Bourdon on-line
- Web Gallery of art: Sébastien Bourdon
- The Encampment, c. 1636-38 (Oberlin College). A genre scene set in a fantastic landscape of lowering cliffs.
- Portrait (engraving) of Sébastien Bourdon by Laurent Cars at University of Michigan Museum of Art
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