Jean-Charles Tardieu, also called "Tardieu-Cochin" (3 September 1765 – 3 April 1830) was a successful French painter during the ages of Napoleon and of the Bourbon Restoration. His work was primarily historical, but also included landscapes, portraits and religious subjects.

Biography

Jean-Charles Tardieu was born on 3 September 1765 in Paris, son of Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu and Elisabeth Claire Tournay.[1] His father and his grandfather, Nicolas-Henri Tardieu, were both members of the Academy and the King's engravers.[2] His father's cousin was the engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin, who left him a small legacy when he died in 1790.[3] Cochin also treated him as a sort of pupil and gave him advice. He was formally placed under Jean-Baptiste Regnault for his artistic training.[1] He failed to get the Grand Prix de Rome, but the second prize of the Prix de Rome was awarded to him in 1790.[4] His father died on 9 July 1791.[5]

A passionate artist with great skill in composition, Tardieu exhibited in various salons, and achieved considerable success.[6] He took part in a number of exhibitions in the Louvre between 1806 and 1823.[2] In 1808 he was granted a housing allowance.[4] The great majority of his works were bought by the government or commissioned by the government.[2]

Tardieu had excellent connections and seems to have been fully employed during the reigns of Napoleon, Louis XVIII and Charles X of France. Several of his works were bought for the house of the latter sovereign.[7] He made a large number of tableaux for the government, which were placed in the Luxembourg, Versailles, Saint-Cloud, Fontainebleau and Compiègne palaces and also at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'archéologie de Besançon, Rouen Cathedral, Nîmes Cathedral and Lons-le-Saulnier Cathedral.[2]

In his later years, Tardieu worked on religious tableaux and landscapes.[4] Tardieu died in Paris on 3 April 1830.[1] His son Jules-Romain Tardieu was born in Rouen on 28 January 1805. Jules was to become a connoisseur of the arts and letters, a writer, publisher and bookseller, and a member of the Academy of Caen.[8]

Œuvres

Tardieu-Cochin's work was primarily historical.[9] He often took classical and poetic subjects. He also made copies of several paintings of saints by Philippe de Champaigne that were commissioned by the king's house.[2] Almost all his works are held in public collections including, among others, those in the Rouen Cathedral, and in the museums of Besançon, Le Havre, Marseille and Versailles.[7] Among the most successful are Halte en Égypte, Jean Bart à la cour, la Conversion du duc de Joyeuse, Frédéric-Guillaume chez le grand Frédéric, Louis XVIII à Mittau et l’Aveugle au marché des Innocents.

Paintings

Some of the more notable of Tardieu's paintings:[2]

Other notable works include:[2]

• Ulysse reconnu par Euryclée, Marseille, Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille
• Agamède et Trophonius
• Jésus-Christ chez Marthe et Marie
• Première messe de saint Vincent de Paul
• Un veuf au tombeau de fa femme
• Les Bacchanales

In addition, public collections hold the following:

• Bienfaisance de Napoleon 1er envers Marocwi, vieillard polonais de 117 ans qui lui est présenté, Palace of Versailles
• Halte d’Henri IV en forêt après la bataille d’Ivry, 1802 ou 1807, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Château de Pau
• Halte d’Henri IV en forêt, Pau, Musée national du château de Pau
• Henri IV devant Paris. Aout 1590, Versailles
• Henri IV fait distribuer des vivres pendant le siège de Paris en aout 1590, Versailles
• La Clémence de Louis XII en avril 1498, Versailles
• La Justification de Suzanne, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins ;
• Le roi Louis XVIII en exil à Mittau y couronne la rosière, 1799, Versailles
• Sully aux pieds d’Henri IV, Pau, Musée national du château de Pau
• Trophenius et Agamède, Besançon Museum

Gallery

• 
  Joseph Recognized by His Brothers, 1788
• 
  Napoléon reçoit la reine de Prusse à Tilsit, 1808
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  Une Scene du Marche des Innocents, 1814. Paris: Musée du Louvre département des Peintures
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  Louis XVIII couronne la rosière de Mittau. 1799, 1817
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  Halte d'Henri IV en forêt. Pau: Musée national du château de Pau
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  Sully aux pieds d'Henri IV. Pau: Musée national du château de Pau
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  La Clemence de Louis XII. Avril 1498. Versailles: musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon

References

Citations

Sources

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• Weiss, Charles; Lepin, Suzanne (1972). Journal de Charles Weiss 1815-1822 (in French). Presses Univ. Franche-Comté. GGKEY:7PC4NRH9HCL. Retrieved 16 November 2012.

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