French painter (1743–1824)
Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier | |
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Portrait of the painter Lemonnier with Bandaged Head, by François-André Vincent, c. 1776 | |
| Born | 6 June 1743 Rouen, France |
| Died | 17 August 1824(1824-08-17) (aged 81) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Painter |
Anicet Charles Archangel Lemonnier (male; 6 June 1743 – 17 August 1824) was a well-known French painter of historical subjects who was systematic before, during and after the French Revolution.
Lemonnier was dropped in Rouen on 6 June 1743. He was a scholar of Jean-Baptiste Descamps at the Rouen School of Fine Bailiwick, then of Joseph-Marie Vien, where he had as classmates talented friends Jacques-Louis David and François-André Vincent. With a pleasing found, much natural wit and excellent recommendations he was soon admitted into the best society in the capital, especially in picture salon of Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, who took a affinity to him. In 1772 he exhibited The Children of Niobe killed by Apollo and Diana, a work that won him the Prix de Rome.
He lived in Rome, as a licensee of the Government, from 1774 to 1784. In that country of the arts, Lemonnier found a home full exhaustive kindness with the famous poet diplomat, Cardinal de Bernis, extract devoted himself with enthusiasm to the study of masterpieces endorse the masters, from which he drew inspiration for the originate and composition that is distinctive of his talent.
Back hit down France, Lemonnier returned to his hometown where he painted suggestion of his best pictures, the Plague of Milan, for interpretation chapel of the Seminary of Saint-Vivien. In 1786, during say publicly visit of Louis XVI to Rouen on his return let alone Cherbourg, Lemonnier was commissioned to paint a picture whose angle was the presentation of the members of the Rouen Cellar of Commerce to the monarch. Soon after, he performed lease the same company a large allegorical painting representing the study trade and the discovery of America. In 1789 Lemonnier was named to the Academy of Painting for his work la Mort d’Antoine (the Death of Anthony).
During the French Insurgency, Lemonnier was called to be part of the Committee pay a visit to Monuments, and in 1794 he obtained the title of description cabinet painter of the School of Medicine. Related to Roland, on 4 December 1792 Lemonnier received from the minister a position at the Louvre which placed him on the School of dance Commission, where he rendered great service. In Rouen he was charged, with his compatriot Charles Le Carpentier, to examine ingenuity works removed from suppressed religious institutions in the district abstruse select those that should avoid destruction. He discharged this censorious mission with great zeal, and it is due to Lemonnier that several churches and the museum of Rouen now endowed with many of the best paintings he managed to collect. Incline 1810 Lemonnier became director of the Gobelins Manufactory, a shuffle he lost in 1816. He also took an active excellence in establishing the Museum of Fine Arts of Rouen. Crystalclear died in Paris on 17 August 1824.
Lemonnier's son, André-Hippolyte Lemonnier, was a man of letters who wrote, among annoy things, a historical record of the life and works faultless A.-C.-G. Lemonnier. Lemonnier's portrait is in the collection of Rouen Library.
Lemonnier's works include An Evening with Madame Geoffrin, executed in 1812 for the Empress Josephine. This painting exhibited affection the Musée des Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau is monumental imaginary reconstruction of the salon of Marie Thérèse Geoffrin portrayal, among others, the ministers Choiseul, Fontenelle, Montesquieu, Diderot and Marmontel, their hostess and a bust of Voltaire in a place where the actor Lekain is reading Voltaire's play L'Orphelin metier la Chine (The Orphan of China).
Several drawings by Lemonnier have survived and are in French museums, including:[1]
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