Théodore Ravanat (born in

Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...

on 4 May 1812, died in Proveysieux on 21 September 1883) was a French

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compo ...

. Ravanat's work is mostly composed of

Dauphiné The Dauphiné (, ) is a former province in Southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes. The Dauphiné was originally the Dauphiné of Viennois. In the 12th centu ...

landscapes. His paintings are generally among private collections of Grenoble, but some of these paintings can be seen at the

Museum of Grenoble The Museum of Grenoble (french: Musée de Grenoble) is a municipal museum of Fine Arts and antiquities in the city of Grenoble in the Isère region of France. Located on the left bank of the Isère River, place Lavalette, it is known both for i ...

or the

Musée dauphinois The ''Musée dauphinois'' (Dauphinois Museum), located in Grenoble ( France), is dedicated to the ethnography, archaeology, history and society of the former province of the Dauphiné. Situated above the neighbourhood of Saint-Laurent in the lis ...

Biography

Ravant received his first artistic advice by

Jean Achard Jean Alexis Achard () (1807–1884) was a French painter. Biography Born in Voreppe, Isère, into a farming family, Jean Alexis Achard was self-taught and started his career as a clerk for a lawyer. He began his apprenticeship by copying pai ...

. He was friend with

Ernest Hébert Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert (3 November 1817 – 5 December 1908) was a French academic painter. Biography Hébert was born in Grenoble, son of a notary in Grenoble, and moved in 1835 to Paris to study law. He simultaneously took art ...

, sculptor Victor Sappey, and the most of painters who attended the École dauphinoise. He began exhibiting his painting ''Souvenir de Vienne'' in 1832 in Grenoble, then he continued to show his works the next years. From 1843 to 1845, he exhibited at the

Salon de Paris The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

. He began a trip to Italy and returned to Grenoble in 1846. He was appointed assistant of the Musée de Grenoble, Professor, then Director of the municipal school of drawing. In 1880, he moved to Proveysieux, and he received his painter friends in the barn-workshop he rented. This gathering was sometimes called "École de Proveyzieux". Ravanat was the subject of a painting by

Eugène Faure Eugène Faure, a French painter of allegories, mythological subjects, and portraits, was born at Seyssinet, near Grenoble, in 1822. He studied under David d'Angers and Rude, and his first work, a landscape, now in the Grenoble Museum, appeared a ...

and a medal by Victor Sappey.Medal by Victor Sappe
Culture.gouv.fr
Retrieved 21 June 2009

Bibliography

* Nathalie Servonnat-Favier, catalogue of the exhibition ''Peintre(s) à Proveysieux'', Grenoble, 2003 * Maurice Wantellet, ''Deux siècles et plus de peinture dauphinoise'', Grenoble, 1987, 269 p. () * Gérald Schurr and

Pierre Cabanne Pierre Cabanne (September 23, 1921, in Carcassonne – January 24, 2007, in Meudon) was a French art historian. He is best remembered for his extensive research and writings on the art history of painters Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso. He also ...

, ''Dictionnaire des Petits Maîtres de la peinture, 1820-1920'', Paris, Amateur editions, 2008

References

External links

*
Works by Ravanat, on ''Culture.gouv.fr''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ravanat, Theodore 1812 births 1883 deaths Artists from Grenoble 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French male artists