Jean-Gaspard Heilmann (c. 1718 – 27 September 1760) was an 18th-century French painter, author of popular landscapes, historical scenes and fine portraits.
He was the first Mulhouse painter who enjoyed a certain notoriety in Paris.
Biography
Born in
Mulhouse
Mulhouse (; Alsatian language, Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning ''Mill (grinding), mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin Departments of France, department, in the Grand Est Regions of France, region, eastern France, close to the France–Switzerl ...
, from a Mulhouse family documented since the 16th century, an orphan at a very young age, he was formed in
Schaffhausen by the painter Hans Deggeller, then at
Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese
, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
(Switzerland).
Noticed by the
cardinal of Tencin, he followed him to Rome and executed many commissions for him. The French Ambassador to Rome took him to Paris in 1742.
Heilmann lived there until his death and connected with the engraver
Jean-Georges Wille
Johann Georg Wille, or Jean Georges Wille (5 November 1715, near Biebertal - 5 April 1808, Paris) was a German-born copper engraver, who spent most of his life in France. He also worked as an art dealer.
Life and work
He was the eldest of seven ...
and
François Boucher
François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...
, first painter of king
Louis XV
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reache ...
.
He died in Paris in 1760 at the age of 42.
Selected works
*''Portrait de femme'' (oil), 1748,
Musée Magnin
The Musée Magnin is a national museum in the French city of Dijon in Burgundy, in the Côte-d'Or department, with a collection of around 2,000 works of art collected by Maurice Magnin and his sister Jeanne and bequeathed to the state in 1938 along ...
in
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
*''Portrait d'homme'' et son pendant ''Portrait de femme'' (1749),
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
*''Sous-bois'' (drawing),
Musée Bonnat in
Bayonne
Bayonne (; eu, Baiona ; oc, label= Gascon, Baiona ; es, Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border. It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine re ...
*''Autoportrait en costume d'atelier'' (oil),
*''Autoportrait en costume d'apparat'' (oil), c. 1750, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
*Deux natures mortes, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
References
Bibliography
*Johann Kaspar Füssli, ''Histoire des meilleurs peintres de la Suisse'', Zurich, 1755-1756, vol. 3,
*Ernest Meininger, ''Les anciens artistes-peintres et décorateurs mulhousiens jusqu'au XIXe siècle. Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire de l'art à Mulhouse'', 1908, reissued at Nabu Press in 2010 ; full original text onlin
numerous biographical references
*', article by Raymond Oberlé, issue No 16,
External links
Louis-Gabriel Michaud, ''Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes'', vol. 19, Desplaces, Paris, 1843-18..., p. 49J. Caspar Heilmann(18th century engraving in
Intaglio (printmaking), intaglio, on the website of the
Institut national d'histoire de l'art)
*
Louis-Gabriel Michaud, ''Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes'', Desplaces, Paris, 1843-18..., p. 49Œuvres dans les collections des musées d'art et d'histoire de la ville de Genève
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18th-century French painters
French landscape painters
French portrait painters
French history painters
Artists from Mulhouse
1710s births
1760 deaths