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Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay I (1653–1715), also called ‘Jean-Baptiste Belin the Elder’, was a French painter who specialized in flowers.

Life and work

He was born in Caen, France in 1653 and died in Paris in 1715. Early in life he was forced to choose between his Protestant religion and his career. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 forced most Protestants to flee France to escape religious persecution. Belin decided to renounce his Protestant faith and converted to Catholicism in order to continue his work at the court of Louis XIV. Belin was the pupil of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, whose daughter he married, and whom he succeeded as a flower painter at the Gobelins manufactory.

Belin painted floral murals in several of the royal chateaus, including Fontainebleau and Versailles, where he worked on the Escalier de la Reine (Queen's Staircase), since destroyed. He also collaborated with other painters, providing the floral borders in portrait paintings and tapestry cartoons for Gobelins manufactory from 1687. Towards the end of his life, the king honored him by providing him with a pension and lodgings in the Palais du Louvre. One of his sons was named Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay II (1688–1730) and painted in a similar style.

Élysée Palace (Paris), the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Louvre, the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Caen, France) and Versailles are among the public collections having paintings by Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay I.

References

• Nagler, Georg Kaspar, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, W. Engelmann, Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1885, p. 348.

External links

Media related to Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay the Elder at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Jean-Baptiste Belin

Jean-Baptiste Belin (oder Blain de Fontenay le Père) (* 9. November 1653 in Caen, Normandie; † 2. Dezember 1715 in Paris) war ein französischer Maler der Barockzeit. Er schuf zahlreiche Stillleben.

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- [en] Jean-Baptiste Belin

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[es] Jean-Baptiste Belin

Jean-Baptiste Belin (o Blain de Fontenay le Père) (bautizado en Caen, 9 de noviembre de 1653-París, 2 de diciembre de 1715) pintor francés. Son famosos sus cuadros de flores y frutas.

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[fr] Jean-Baptiste Belin

Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay[1], ou Blain de Fontenay Père, baptisé à Caen le 9 novembre 1653 et mort à Paris le 12 février 1715, est un peintre français, estimé pour ses tableaux de fleurs et de fruits.

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[it] Jean-Baptiste Belin

Jean-Baptiste Belin, o Jean-Baptiste Blain de Fontenay le Père (Caen, 9 novembre 1653[1] – Parigi, 2 dicembre 1715), è stato un pittore francese. Fu particolarmente apprezzato per le sue nature morte, rappresentanti soprattutto frutta e fiori.

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