François-André Vincent

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File:Adélaide Labille-Guiard - François-André Vincent 1783.jpg
Portrait of François-André Vincent by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, painted 1783

François-André Vincent (30 December 1746 – 4 August 1816) was a French neoclassical painter.[1]

Biography

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Marquis de La Galaizière made chancellor of Lorraine at Château de Meudon by Stanisław Leszczyński
File:François-André Vincent - Zeuxis Choosing his Models for the Image of Helen from among the Girls of Croton - Google Art Project.jpg
Zeuxis Choosing his Models for the Image of Helen from among the Girls of Croton, detail

He was the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent and studied under Joseph-Marie Vien. François-André Vincent was a pupil of École Royale des Éleves Protégés. From 1771 to 1775 he studied at the Académie de France. He travelled to Rome, where he won the Prix de Rome in 1768, and was when he was installed at the Palais Mancini, Rome, where he painted numerous portraits, inspired by Jean-Honoré Fragonard's style, wo also was visiting Rome and Naples in the same time. and also inspired by the Classical antiquity and the Italian renaissance masters like Raphael.[2][3]

In 1790, Vincent was appointed master of drawings to Louis XVI of France, and in 1792 he became a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris. In 1800, he married the painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.

He was a leader of the neoclassical and historical movement in French art, along with his rival Jacques-Louis David, another pupil of Vien. He was influenced by the art of classical antiquity, by the masters of the Italian High Renaissance, especially Raphael, and among his contemporaries, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. François-André Vincent was one of the principal innovators of the subjects and themes in French art of Neoclassical style an his works were of a high standard.[4]

He was one of the founder members of the Académie des beaux-arts — part of the Institut de France and the successor to the Académie royale — in 1795. Towards the end of his life he painted less due to ill health, but he continued to receive official honours.

Works

  • Georges Cuvier

  • Vincent - Zeuxis et les filles de Crotone 02.jpg
  • Alcibades being taught by Socrates, François-André Vincent.jpg

    Alcibades being taught by Socrates, by François-André Vincent

  • François-André VINCENT - Guillaume Tell renversant la barque sur laquelle le gouverneur Gessler traversait le lac de Lucerne - Musée des Augustins - 2004 1 297.jpg

    William Tell's leap (Tellensprung) from the boat of his captors at the Axen cliffs

  • François-André Vincent - Le Prêtre grec.jpg

    Greek priest

  • Vincent - Portrait de la baronne de Chalvet-Souville, née Marie de Broutin 03.jpg

    Portrait de la baronne de Chalvet-Souville, née Marie de Broutin (detail)

  • Francois-André Vincent - Portrait de Pierre Rousseau.jpg

    Portrait of Pierre Rousseau

  • François-André Vincent - La Leçon de labourage.gif

    The Ploughing Lesson

  • Portret van een man Rijksmuseum SK-A-3931.jpeg

    Portrait of a man.

  • Molé et les factieux, Mathieu Molé (1584-1656), French statesman, and rebels

  • Belisarius by François-André Vincent, painted 1776

See also

References

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Further reading

External links

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