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“2”-DAY 19 September |
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Died on 19 September 1849 (1848?): Dominique-Louis-Féréal
Papéty, French painter born on 12 August 1815. — After studying in Marseille under Augustin Aubert (1781-1857), he moved to Paris and entered the studio of Léon Cogniet. In 1836 he won the Prix de Rome and from 1836 to 1841 he was a student at the French Academy in Rome. His most famous painting, The Dream of Happiness, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1843, was inspired by the writings of the socialist philosopher Charles Fourier (1772-1837). He was greatly interested in Greek and Roman art, paying two visits to Greece in 1846 and 1847, and many of his later paintings have affinities with the Néo~Grec style popularized by Gérôme and his followers. Papéty died in the cholera epidemic of 1849. — Son of a soap manufacturer, Papéty received his first artistic training in Marseille under Augustin Aubert [1781–1857]. In 1835 he moved to Paris and entered the atelier of Léon Cogniet at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Prix de Rome in 1836 with Moses Striking the Rock, and from 1836 to 1841 he was consequently at the Académie de France in Rome, which was then under the directorship of Ingres. This period in Rome was Papety’s most productive. He distinguished himself as a history painter of classical and religious subjects and as an orientalist. He also produced a number of utopian scenes in antique settings influenced by the socialist theories of the French philosopher Charles Fourier [1772–1837]. The most famous painting of the latter category, and also his most significant work, is The Dream of Happiness, which he began in Rome in 1837. It had a great success when, still unfinished, it was exhibited in Paris in 1841, though the critics were less favorable when it was shown finished at the Salon of 1843. During his stay in Rome, Papety made copies after works by Raphael, such as Mercure (1840). He also developed an ethnographic interest and produced numerous paintings on Italian subjects, under the influence of Léopold Robert. Papety made short trips to Florence, Naples, Venice, and Padua, painting the various regional and social types and costumes, such as lazzaroni and pifferari. In these works he tried to show that the modern Italians had retained the thoughtful gravitas, nobility and attitudes of their ancient counterparts, as in Paysan Italien, whose figure stands with a classical pose. — LINKS — Daphnis et Chloé (150x115cm) — The Temptation of St. Hilarion _ detail. — An Italian Peasant Girl — A French Peasant Girl — The Temptation of Saint Hilarion — A Neapolitan Fisherman — An Italian Peasant Woman and Child — A Chinese Girl (22x28cm) — Télémaque chez Calypso (1851, 61x80cm) d'après Papéty, gravure de Paul Allais. |
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Died on 19 September 1581: Frans Pourbus
(or Poerbus) Sr., Dutch painter born in 1545. — He was the son and student of Pieter Pourbus (1523 – 30 Jan 1584 — 2 portraits) and the grandson, on his mother's side, of Lancelot Blondeel. Frans Pourbus Sr. painted religious pictures and portraits. He worked mainly in Antwerp, where he was also the student of Frans Floris [1516-1570], whose niece he married. His religious works are usually in the Italianizing style of Floris, but markedly Reformed Church in content; his portraits (like his father's) are close to the sober style of Anthonis Mor [1517-1577]. Frans Sr. was the father of Frans Pourbus Jr. [1569-1622], the most international in style of any member of the family. — LINKS — Abraham Grapheus (43x34cm; full size; or see it half-size) _ Grapheus, 65 at the time, a messenger at the Antwerp Painters' Guild, was also portrayed by Jordaens (e.g. Two Studies of the Head of Abraham Grapheus, 45x52cm — Jordaens used the head on the left for Saint Mark at the right of The Four Evangelists, 1625; 924x804pix, 232kb. The head on the right appears as the head of a satyr on the right of his Allegory of Fertility; 800x1080pix, 166kb), by Cornelis de Vos [1584-1651], and by young van Dyck (as The Penitent Apostle Saint Peter, 1617; 850x657pix, 114kb) — Portrait of a Young Woman (1581, 41x34cm; 979x770pix, 118kb) _ The painting is signed above the shoulder (F. POURBUS fc.) and dated upper left (ANN° DNI 1581). It is the last known, signed and dated work by the Bruges master, who was one of the leading portraitists of his day in the Low Countries. — Portrait of a Woman (87x78cm; 810x698pix, 66kb) _ This is a traditional Netherlandish portrait executed under the influence of Italinan painting, especially that of Titian. |
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