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Jean-François Hue
Jean-François Hue (Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, 2 December 1751 to Paris, 26 December 1823) was a French painter, known for marine and landscape paintings. Biography Jean-François Hue entered the Académie Royale in 1782, due to his painting ''Vue prise dans la forêt de Fontainebleau''. Hue was noticed by Joseph Vernet Claude-Joseph Vernet (; 14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Carle Vernet, was also a painter. Life and work Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet (1689–1753) ... and became the pupil of Gabriel-François Doyen in Paris. He then joined Vernet's workshop, where he painted ''Quatre vues du château de Mousseaux et de ses jardins'' (undated, 74.8 × 85.8 cm). In 1791, the Assemblée Constituante requested he finish the series ''Vues des ports de mer de France'' that Vernet had started in 1753 and left unfinished in 1765. Between 1792 and 1798, he created six painting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines
Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. Population Twin towns * Freudenberg am Main (1993) * Terras de Bouro (2004) See also *Communes of the Yvelines department A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes o ... References Communes of Yvelines {{Yvelines-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Vernet
Claude-Joseph Vernet (; 14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Carle Vernet, was also a painter. Life and work Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet (1689–1753), a skilled decorative painter, in the most important parts of his work. The panels of sedan chairs, however, could not satisfy his ambition, and Vernet left for Rome. The sight of the whales at Marseille and his voyage thence to Civitavecchia (Papal States' main port on the Tyrrhenian Sea) made a deep impression on him, and immediately after his arrival he entered the studios of whale painter Bernardino Fergioni and marine landscapist Adrien Manglard. Manglard and Fergioni initiated Vernet into seascape painting. In 1734, Vernet left for Rome to study landscape designers and maritime painters, like Claude Gellee Claude Lorrain, where we find the styles and subjects of Vernet's paintings. Slowly Vernet attracted notice in the artistic m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel François Doyen
Gabriel François Doyen (; 20 May 1726, Paris – 13 March 1806, Saint Petersburg) was a French painter of historical and mythological scenes. Biography His father, a royal upholsterer, initially opposed his wishes to become an artist but, at the age of twelve, he began taking lessons from Charles-André van Loo. Making rapid progress, he obtained the Grand Prix de Rome at the age of twenty. In 1748, he set out for Italy and, in 1752, became associated with the Academy of France in Rome. Later, he travelled throughout Italy, studying the works of Domenichino, Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, Giulio Romano (painter), Giulio Romano and Michelangelo. While in Venice, he was greatly influenced by the work of the famous colourists, such as Titian. In 1755 returned to Paris and, at first unappreciated and disparaged, he resolved by one grand effort to achieve a reputation, and in 1758 he exhibited his ''Death of Virginia''. It was completely succes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Of 14 December 1798
The action of 14 December 1798 was fought between the 32-gun British frigate and the 24-gun French corvette during the War of the Second Coalition. ''Bayonnaise'' was vastly outgunned and outmanoeuvred, but boarded and captured ''Ambuscade''. Background On 14 December, as she sailed about off Ré, ''Bayonnaise'' met the 32-gun frigate ''Ambuscade'', cruising off Oléron under Captain Henry Jenkins. ''Ambuscade'' was waiting to meet with and blockade the Gironde estuary. ''Bayonnaise'' was a 24-gun corvette with a strong crew augmented by a 40-soldier detachment from the ''Régiment d'Alsace'', under Army captain Nicolas Aimé. At dawn, ''Ambuscade'' detected ''Bayonnaise'' and assumed she was ''Stag''; ''Bayonnaise'' also detected ''Ambuscade'', and, correctly assuming that she was a superior British warship, turned around to flee. From this manoeuver, ''Ambuscade'' understood that the sail was French and gave chase. Around noon, ''Ambuscade'' had closed in to cannon rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Tours
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours (English: Museum of Fine Arts of Tours) is located in the bishop's former palace, near the cathedral St. Gatien, where it has been since 1910. It displays rich and varied collections, including that of painting which is one of the first in France both in quality and the diversity of the works presented. Description In the courtyard, there is a magnificent cedar of Lebanon and a stuffed elephant in a building in front of the museum. This elephant was killed because of a bout of madness during a circus parade by the "Barnum & Bailey" circus in the streets of Tours on 10 June 1902. The museum has over 12,000 works of which 1,000 are on show to the public. On the ground floor, the museum has a room especially dedicated to Tours art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The museum was classified as a monument historique on 27 June 1983. Collections The museum has a large and fairly homogeneous collection of paintings, which includes several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century French Painters
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russia and China. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century French Painters
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
