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Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël (28 June 1735 – 14 November 1813)[1] was a French painter, engraver and draftsman. During his long life, Houël witnessed the reign of Louis XV, the French Revolution, and the period of Napoleon's First Empire.

Jean-Pierre Houël
Portrait of Jean-Pierre Houël by François-André Vincent
Born(1735-06-28)28 June 1735
Rouen, France
Died14 November 1813(1813-11-14) (aged 78)
France
NationalityFrench
OccupationNeoclassical painter

Biography


He was born at Rouen into a family of prosperous artisans, who sent him to the city's drawing academy when he was fifteen.[1]

Here he was exposed to the art of early Dutch and Flemish painters, which was to have a defining impact on his chosen specialty of landscape painting.[citation needed] In 1758 Houël published a book of landscape engravings, and in 1768 he painted six views of the Duc de Choiseul's country estate, the Château de Chanteloup.[1] The following year his influential patrons secured a place for him at the French Academy in Rome. Here, captivated with Italian customs, landscapes, and ancient sites, he traveled throughout southern Italy, making gouache drawings, which he presented at the Paris Salons of the early 1770s, exhibits that drew the attention of a wide public.[1]

He spent the years 1776 to 1779 traveling in Sicily, Lipari, and Malta, after which, based on his journey, he published a series of four volumes of lavishly illustrated travel books (1782–1787). Houël's main intention was to illustrate local topography, but his delicate applications of watercolor also magnificently captured the effects of light and atmosphere. To help finance these projects, he sold his preliminary drawings in Paris in 1780. Louis XVI purchased 46, and Catherine II of Russia, more than 500, of which 260 are preserved at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.[1]

In his later years, Houël published two illustrated treatises on elephants. Drawings of other animals suggest he was preparing to publish further zoological works; however, his death at the age of seventy-eight cut short his plans.[1]


Notes


  1. Conisbee 1996.

Bibliography



На других языках


[de] Jean-Pierre Houël

Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël (* 28. Juni 1735 in Rouen; † 14. November 1813 in Paris) war ein französischer Kunstmaler, Kupferstecher und Zeichner, der im Stil der holländischen und flämischen Malerei arbeitete. Er besuchte mit 15 Jahren die École supérieure d’art et design Le Havre-Rouen unter Jean-Baptiste Descamps. Unter Jacques-Philippe Le Bas erlernte er in Paris die Kupferstecherei. Für Étienne-François de Choiseul fertigte er 1769 die Gemälde in den Supraporten im Schloss Chanteloup an. In seinen Gemälden dokumentierte Houël die Herrschaft Ludwigs XV., das Ende Ludwigs XVI., die Französische Revolution unter Jean-Jacques Rousseau sowie die Herrschaft des Kaisers Napoleon I. Er war Mitglied der Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, der Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen sowie der Pariser Freimaurerloge Neuf Sœurs.
- [en] Jean-Pierre Houël

[fr] Jean-Pierre Houël

Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houël né le 28 juin 1735 à Rouen et mort le 14 novembre 1813 à Paris est un graveur, dessinateur et peintre français.

[it] Jean-Pierre Houël

Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houël (Rouen, 28 giugno 1735 – Parigi, 14 novembre 1813) è stato un incisore, pittore e architetto francese, nonché uno dei più famosi viaggiatori del Grand Tour.



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