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Jean Joseph Vaudechamp (1790–1866) was a French painter born in
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Louisiana State Museum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaudechamp, Jean Joseph 1790 births 1866 deaths People from Vosges (department) 19th-century French painters French male painters French portrait painters 19th-century French male artists
Rambervillers
Rambervillers () is a Communes of France, commune in the Vosges (department), Vosges Departments of France, department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Inhabitants are called ''Rambuvetais''.
Geography
The town is built on the banks of the ...
, Vosges
The Vosges ( , ; ; Franconian and ) is a range of medium mountains in Eastern France, near its border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the border, they form a single geomorphological unit and ...
. He was a pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (; or ''de Roucy''), also known as Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson or simply Girodet (29 January 17679 December 1824),Long, George. (1851) ''The Supplement to the Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion ...
.
New Orleans
The market in Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
was competitive, so in the winter of 1831–32, he went to try his fortunes in New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...
. The Louisiana Creole people
Louisiana Creoles (, , ) are a Louisiana French people, Louisiana French ethnic group descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana (New France), Louisiana during the periods of French colonial empire, French and Spanish Empire, Spanis ...
identified with French culture and selected Vaudechamp to paint portraits
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better re ...
for them. Over the next ten years he spent winters in New Orleans, and was a leading portrait painter in the region. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; 'Neuilly-on-Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department just west of Paris in France. Immediately adjacent to the city, north of the ...
in 1866.
References
External links
Louisiana State Museum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaudechamp, Jean Joseph 1790 births 1866 deaths People from Vosges (department) 19th-century French painters French male painters French portrait painters 19th-century French male artists