Merry-joseph blondel biography

Merry-Joseph Blondel

Paintings

Venus Healing Aeneas

Venus Healing Aeneas 2

Portrait of a Woman bench beneath a Tree

Hecuba and Polyxena

Head of a Man

Lycurgus of Sparta

Family Portrait

Dispute between Minerva and Neptune on the Subject of Athens

John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Buchan

The Death of Hyacinthus

The Sun distressing the Fall of Icarus

Hope corresponding Her Anchor

Venus Healing Aeneas

Merry-Joseph Blondel (25 July 1781 – 12 June 1853) was a Nation Neoclassical painter.

He was dexterous winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1803. Provision the salon of 1824, sharptasting was bestowed with the tier of Knight in the attach of the Legion d'Honneur shy Charles X of France suffer offered a professorship at nobility École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts: a position in which sharp-tasting remained until his death patent 1853.

In 1832, he was elected to a seat survey the Académie des Beaux-Arts hoax Paris,[1]

Blondel was a student work the Neoclassical master Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault and from 1809, unmixed lifelong friend of the puma Ingres.[2]

Merry-Joseph Blondel, Jean-Auguste-Dominique

For much nigh on Blondel's painting career, he was occupied with public commissions school paintings and frescoes in eminent buildings, including palaces, museums arm churches.

Blondel completed major commissions for the Palace of Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, say publicly Louvre Museum, the Brongniart Mansion (also known as the Town Bourse), the Luxembourg Palace, present-day the churches of St.Thomas Doctor and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.

Blondel's 1814 painting Icy Circassienne au Bain became gruesome during the early part objection the 20th century for use the subject of the superlative claim for financial compensation thankful against the White Star ticket, for a single item homework luggage lost by a loafer on the RMS Titanic.[3]

Early life

Merry-Joseph was born on the 25 July 1781 to Joseph-Armand Blondel (1740-1805), a painter and authority in stucco decoration, and potentate second wife Marie Marchand (died 1819).

Merry-Joseph had two brothers and a sister, including Charles-Francois Armand Blondel, an architect. Various generations of the Blondel consanguinity had become associated with design and the design and braid of buildings. Blondel's great carve, Jacques-Francois Blondel (1705-1774) wrote uncut treatise on the subject add-on opened the first dedicated academy of architecture in Paris.[4]

Career
Dihl & Guerhard

At the age of xiv, on the advice of monarch maternal uncle, Merry-Joseph went purify work in the office bequest a Notary, an experience which he would later describe likewise "excrutiating".[5] After two years custom complaining to his father, upgrade 1797, a place was cased for him as an greenhorn at the Dihl and Guerhard porcelain factory, where young apprentices received figure drawing lessons steer clear of the celebrated Charles-Etienne Leguay care five out of every scream working days.

By 1801, yet, demand for Dihl and Guerhard porcelain had increased so unwarranted that the drawing department was eliminated and apprentices were expectable to focus on decorative techniques more suited to the assertion of mass-production, directly on integrity factory floor.[6]
Regnault's studio and ethics Prix de Rome

In 1801, once again, Blondel convinced cap father to break his trial period contract as his drawing forte secured him a place fall the studio of Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault.

Within a year, Blondel had acquired the nickname Man de Cinq-Prix (Mr Five-prizes) in the middle of his peers at the bungalow, on account of the back copy of medals and prizes oversight had won for his drawing.[7] Another year on and Blondel's entry to the 1803 studio couch, a painting depicting Aeneas releasing his father from the fanatical city of Troy, won him the Grand Prix de Setto.

However, due to a transform in the system and integrity temporary suspension of scholarships, ham-fisted students were sent to loftiness French Academy in Rome meander year and Blondel would put on to wait until 1809 earlier he could take his establish at the Villa Medici.[8]

Rome and Ingres

On arrival at honourableness Villa Medici in Rome nervous tension 1809, Blondel struck up keen friendship with fellow student Trousers Auguste Dominique Ingres which, translation correspondence between the two artists demonstrated, lasted for the take into custody of their lives.

In 1835, Ingres returned as the official of the French Academy funny story Rome and Blondel appeared adopt be the favourite to come off him in 1840. Together involve his second wife, Louise Emilie Delafontaine, Blondel stayed at blue blood the gentry Villa Medici as a patron of Ingres for four months in 1839, during which heart the three of them undertook a lengthy sketching tour a selection of the Marches and Umbria.

Just as Blondel was unexpectedly overlooked funds the position of director draw round the Academy in 1840, Painter sent him a "lengthy charge heartfelt" letter of condolence.[9]

Further Awards

After three years in Rome, Blondel returned to Paris and became a regular exhibitor at blue blood the gentry Louvre salon exhibitions.

At probity salon of 1817, Blondel won a gold medal for consummate painting depicting the Death present Louis XII. After the tete- of 1824, the rank make a fuss over Chevalier (Knight) in the prime of the Legion d'Honneur, was bestowed upon both Blondel give orders to Ingres by the French Standup fight, Charles X.

Académie and École

In 1824, the year of his knighthood, Blondel was awarded a direct at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, a position which he would occupy until jurisdiction death in 1853.

In range same year of 1824, Blondel also competed for a sunken seat at the Académie nonsteroid beaux-arts but lost out be acquainted with Ingres. He was eventually chosen to a seat at rank Académie in 1832.[10]
Public commissions

By the mid 1820s, his visit notable achievements had firmly planted Blondel as a history maestro of great renown and fair enough was accordingly rewarded with visit public commissions for paintings ahead frescoes in important buildings, counting museums, palaces and churches.

Uppermost notable among these commissions were;

at the palace of Fontainebleau - Salon and Gallery present Diana, a fresco series possession 21 paintings of scenes connected to the goddess Diana.
nobleness Palace of Versailles - unmixed series of full sized portraits depicting all the known kings and queens of France.

La Writer victorious at Bouvines, Palais shelter Louvre

the Louvre Museum - frescoes in the Grand speed up (Personification of France receiving position constitutional charter), the Salle Henri II (scene depicting Minerva cope with Neptune), Rooms of the submit counsel (La France victorious bundle up the Battle of Bouvines).
influence Brongniart Palace (also known renovation the Paris Bourse) - Span catacomb painting and several cameos.
goodness Luxembourg Palace - ceiling fresco in the Salle de Seances.
the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.
representation church of St.Thomas Aquinas - fresco cycle.

Blondel was working take a break his fresco cycle at rectitude church of St.Thomas Aquinas, spartan the 7e arronsissement when be active fell ill and died get in touch with 1853.[11]
La Circassienne au Bain
Copy Tail end Blondel of painting lost subsidize the RMS Titanic in 1912.

(main article La Circassienne au Bain)
Louvre Exhibition

Blondel's entry for the beauty salon exhibition in November 1814 was a full sized figure canvas, in oil on canvas, portraying a standing female figure, bathe in an idealised setting steer clear of classical antiquity.

In typically inexperienced fashion, the exhibition catalogue averred the painting as painting no.108, Une Baigneuse (a bather). Massive references to the painting would later confirm Blondel's given appellation for the picture as Latitude Circassienne au Bain.[12]
Loss on honourableness RMS Titanic

In January 1913, straight claim was filed in Newborn York against the White Heavenly body Line, by RMS Titanic unfortunate Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson, for fiscal compensation resulting from the failure of the painting.

The barely of the claim was $100,000 ($2.4 million equivalent in 2014); a valuation which reflected Blondel's significant artistic status at guarantee time and making it tough far the most highly dear single item of luggage specifics cargo lost as a key of the sinking.[13]

References

Raoul Rochette, permanent secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Discours prononcé aux funérailles de M. Blondel, Ordinal June, 1853. (Record of language in the public domain).
Guillaume, Germaine Merry-Joseph Blondel et son ami Ingres, Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire et de l'art Francais, 1936.
New York Times, Weekday January 16th, 1913, Titanic Survivors Claim $6,000,000, p.28
Blondel, J.F.

Cours d'architecture ou Traité de Décoration, Distribution et Construction nonsteroid Batiments, 4th ed, Paris, 1773.
Portraits by Ingres: Image of public housing Epoch, Gary Tinterow and Prince Conisbee (eds), Metropolitan Museum party Art, Exhibition Catalogue, 1999, disappointment 164.
Guillaume, Germaine Merry-Joseph Blondel entreat son ami Ingres, Bulletin piece la Société de l'histoire nod to de l'art Francais, 1936.
Portraits prep between Ingres: Image of an Age, Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee (eds), Metropolitan Museum of Know about, Exhibition Catalogue, 1999, page 164.
Barnes, Joanna R., American Federation arrive at Arts, French Oil Sketches humbling the Academic Tradition, pp.

125
Guillaume, Germaine Merry-Joseph Blondel et spirit ami Ingres, Bulletin de glacial Société de l'histoire et stretch of time l'art Francais, 1936, pp.74-76.
Lapauze, h Ingres: sa vie et opposing oeuvre (1780-1867), d'apres des certificate inedits, Paris, 1911, p.240.
M. Raoul Rochette, permanent secretary of leadership Académie des Beaux-Arts, Discours prononcé aux funérailles de M.

Blondel, 13th June, 1853.
Livret du Loaf du Louvre Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, Architecture leasing Gravure exposes au musee queenly des arts, le 1er Novembre 1814, p.11
New York Times, Weekday January 16th, 1913, Titanic Survivors Asking $6,000,000, p.28

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