Jean Preudhomme or Preud'ho(m)me or Prudhomme (baptised on 23 November 1732 in Rolle; buried on 20 July 1795 in La Neuveville) was a Swiss painter. He was a contemporary of the Swiss painters Anton Graff, Johann Jakob Schalch, Angelica Kauffman, Jakob Emanuel Handmann, Johann Caspar Füssli and his son Johann Heinrich Füssli.

Jean Preudhomme
Franz Rudolf Frisching in the uniform of an officer of the Bernese Huntsmen Corps with his Berner Laufhund, painted by Jean Preudhomme in 1785
Born	c.(1732-11-23)23 November 1732 Rolle, Switzerland
Died	c.20 July 1795(1795-07-20) (aged 62)
Burial place	La Neuveville, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Other names	Jean Preud'ho(m)me, Jean Prudhomme
Occupation	painter
Known for	portrait painting
Notable work	portrait of Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton

Life and work

Jean Preudhomme was a pupil of the well known painters Jean Baptiste Le Prince and Jean-Baptiste Greuze in Paris. He was a landscapist and an animal painter. However, his speciality was portrait painting. In Switzerland he was very popular with the landed gentry and the patricians in Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel and Berne. In a Swiss publication, published between 1782 and 1786, he was described as a “portraitist à la mode”.[1] Preudhomme's paintings, especially the portraits, are rare on the art market. His portrait of Franz Rudolf Frisching is one of his best known paintings.

Paintings in public collections

Preudhomme's portrait of Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton, on his Grand Tour with his Physician Dr John Moore and the latter's son John, with a view of Geneva in the distance, is in the collection of the National Museums of Scotland.[2] On his Grand Tour the Duke and his companions stayed for two years in Geneva.[3]

A portrait of a Lady is in the collection of the Musée Rath.[1]

Literature

• Brun, Schweizerisches Künstlerlexikon

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jean Preudhomme.

• "Preudhomme, Jean". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
• Portrait of Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton, and his companions during their stay in Geneva. Painted by Jean Preudhomme in 1774

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