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Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (December 6, 1750 – February 16, 1819) was a French painter who was influential in elevating the status of En plein air (open-air painting).

Life & work

Valenciennes worked in Rome from 1778 to 1782, where he made a number of landscape studies directly from nature, sometimes painting the same set of trees or house at different times of day.[1] He theorized on this idea in his 1800 treatise Reflections and Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape, developing a concept of a "landscape portrait" in which the artist paints a landscape directly while looking upon it, taking care to capture its particular details.[1]

Painting outside allowed Valenciennes to capture the fleeting changes of a landscape due to light and weather. He was a proponent of artists working outside and painting the same view at multiple times of day.[2] Although he spoke of this as a type of painting mainly of interest to "amateurs",[3] as distinguished from the higher art of the academies, he found it of great interest, and of his own works the surviving landscape portraits have been the most noted by later commentators.[1]

He in particular urged artists to capture the distinctive details of a scene's architecture, dress, agriculture, and so on, in order to give the landscape a sense of belonging to a specific place; in this he probably influenced other French artists active in Italy who took an anthropological approach to painting rural areas and customs, such as Hubert Robert, Pierre-Athanase Chauvin and Achille-Etna Michallon.[3]

Among his students were Jean-Victor Bertin, Achille Etna Michallon, Louis Étienne Watelet, Louis-François Lejeune and the first French panorama painter Pierre Prévost.

Born in the city of Toulouse, he died in Paris and is buried there in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Gallery

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  A Wooded Landscape with a Bacchic Scene circa 1810
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  View of the Environs of Rome
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  A Capriccio of Rome with the Finish of a Marathon 1788
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  At the villa Farnèse : two poplars
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  Landscape with Ruins circa 1782-1785
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  Historical Landscape circa 1800
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  View of the Palace of Nemi. circa 1780

References

External links

Media related to Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (* 6. Dezember 1750 in Toulouse; † 16. Februar 1819 in Paris) war ein französischer Maler und Hochschullehrer. Er war einer der bedeutendsten Landschaftsmaler seiner Zeit und hatte mit seinem künstlerischen und theoretischen Werk großen Einfluss auf spätere Künstler. So gilt de Valenciennes als Vorläufer der Stimmungsmalerei der Romantik und der Freilichtmalerei des Impressionismus.

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- [en] Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes

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[fr] Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes ou Pierre-Henri Valenciennes[alpha 1], né à Toulouse le 6 décembre 1750, mort à Paris le 16 février 1819, est un artiste peintre français néo-classique, qui s'est spécialisé dans la peinture de paysage.

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[it] Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (Tolosa, 6 dicembre 1750 – Parigi, 16 febbraio 1819) è stato un pittore francese paesaggista.

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[ru] Валансьен, Пьер-Анри де

Пьер-Анри́ де Валансье́н (фр. Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes; 6 декабря 1750 года, Тулуза — 16 февраля 1819 года, Париж) — французский живописец-романтик, пейзажист; ученик Верне́ и Дуайена.

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