Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet - La Mort de Caton d'Utique

Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet (1759 – 7 July 1842) was a French historical painter and a pupil of

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away f ...

. He painted subjects from sacred and profane history, poetry, and portraits. He won the

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in 1797, and continued to

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until 1819. Charles Gabet does not mention the date of his birth or death. Charles Henri Ver-Huell (1764-1845)

1807 he manufactured the portrait on behalf emperors

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as counterpart to the work of

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who

Robert Lefèvre Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre (, 24 September 1755, in Bayeux – 3 October 1830, in Paris) was a French painter of portraits, history paintings and religious paintings. He was heavily influenced by Jacques-Louis David and his style is ...

1805 had implemented. Napoléon gave these two portraits of the city

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to 1807. After their deportation of Aachen into the city lock of

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on order Friedrich Wilhelm IV copies were made before he sent the paintings back 1840 to Aachen. Probably Professor Carl Schmid painted the

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s. The original works decorate today the entrance hall of

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Works

* 1797 ''Death of Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger'' * ''Hector Isabey'' (1797–1814), sign., oil on canvas, 141 × 98 cm (55,5 × 38,6 in). 1994 auction. * ''Eugenie Isabey'' (1803–1886), oil on canvas, 141 × 98 cm (55,5 × 38,6 in). 1994 auction. * ''Alexandrine Isabey'' (1791–1871), Madame Charles Ciceri, sign., oil on canvas, 141 × 98 cm (55,5 × 38,6 in). 1994 auction. * ''Mme. H and her children'', 1815, oil on canvas, 165.4 × 122.6 cm (65 × 48 in). Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, 62.75 Seattle Art Museum The Collection Holocaust Provenance.

Literature

* J. Fey: „Zur Geschichte Aachener Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts.“ in: „Aus Aachens Vorzeit. Mit-teilungen des Vereins für Kunde der Aachener Vorzeit.“ Zehnter Jahrgang 1897, Nr. 4/8. S. 70–72. Kurzbiografie von Schmid. S.83f. * "BOUCHET, Louis André Gabriel" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1889 publication now in the public domain.

External links

Portrait Napoleon I. in the city hall Aachen

Works of Bouchet on artnet.de

References

* 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters Prix de Rome for painting Pupils of Jacques-Louis David 1759 births 1842 deaths 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub