Galerie Emeric Hahn Oil on canvas and oil on panel - Scène de l'histoire antique

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Scene from ancient history Oil on canvas 45 x 71 cm CHRONOLOGY by Jacques GAMELIN 1738-1803 1738 3 October birth in Carcassonne. His drapery merchant father ran a sheet factory, and he felt that his son had to take over the family business. Ignoring his son's penchant for music, drawing and literature, he placed him in Toulouse, a merchant who owned two cloth factories, Nicolas Joseph Marcassus baron de Puymaurin, a great lover of painting, a patron and a collector. Immediately he detects the gifts for the drawing of his apprentice and decides to give him a thorough training. He brought it into 1756/57 the workshop of Jean-Pierre Rivalz (1718 - 1785) and not in that of Antoine Rivalz (1667-1735) as is often said by mistake. It was there that Gamelin saw the drawings of La Fage on the history of Toulouse that the Chevalier Rivalz possessed from the legacy of his father Antoine. It is known that he made paintings after or inspired by these drawings. (At the Augustinian Museum in Toulouse. Measures 1958). This will be one of the foundations of his artistic education, the first classical training that Gamelin will so generously use. 1759 First exhibition at the Salon of the Royal Academy of Toulouse with a portrait. 1761 His rapid progress prompted baron de Puymaurin to send him to Paris to visit Jean-Baptiste Deshays, a pupil and son-in-law of Boucher, who after following for a time the precious taste of the 18th turned to history painting, nothing was better for Gamelin than to be in this atmosphere, he witnessed the execution of the paintings on the life of StAndré, St Pierre freed from prison. 1761. The Resurrection of Lazarus 1763. The Marriage of the Virgin 1763 between other. It is in Paris that Gamelin will really face the difficulties. This self-employed, hard-working, stubborn, austere southerner will fit into the Parisian art scene with difficulty. His studies were not successful, 1763 he appeared twice in the Grand Prix Competition of the Academy: in 1763 the prize was not awarded because of the weakness of the students: J.J. Lagrenée, Alizard, Gamelin, Bardin, d'Arayne; (Montaiglon. Minutes, 1763). 1764 Second attempt in 1764 "Cleobis and Biton leading their mother to the temple of Juno" 1st prize Alizard and Callet, 2nd prize Bardin and Berthélémy. 1765 This failure will be an injury for his own love, the accident of J.B. Deshays (he died on February 10, 1765) will be the occasion that Gamelin will take to leave for Rome after a brief stay in Toulouse always at the expense of his generous protector. It is then the full bloom, its classical culture, its Mediterranean education will regain their place. He regularly sends some works from Rome to the Salon of the Royal Academy of Toulouse. Study, copy the old masters, Poussin, Raphael Michelangelo. 1766 1st prize of the living model of st. Luke's Academy in Rome. 1767 Drapery price. 1771 Member of the St Luke's Academy, he paints for his reception a battle that will be given to Pope Pius VI, this is the year Goya stays in Italy from April to October. Fiïssli has already been in Rome for a year and will remain there until 79. Raphael Mengs member of the St. Luke's Academy since 52, coming from Spain is back. Gamelin's fame came to David's ears in Rome in 1775 when Gamelin had just left in 1774 to find his dying father in Carcassonne, they would never know each other by reputation and through their works, David wanted to take Gamelin in his studio in Paris, but he never wanted to go, did he have a bad memory of the Capital? Full of enthusiasm, happy to find the "country" proud to show what he can do he exhibited in Toulouse in 1774 many works brought back from Rome, and began to paint large paintings for the church of Montreal of Aude in 77 and for the abbey of Fontfroide in 79. 1777 The legacy left by his father allows him to repay his protector and to embark on the great undertaking he dreams of: to make a collection of Osteology and Myology for artists and scientists. For this he moved to Toulouse, opened an engraving workshop, dissected the hospital, drew from nature, grave assisted by Lavalée 1779 and Martin. The collection will be released in 1779, alas it is ruined, the failure is total, this wonderful work will not sell because two other books of anatomy appear at the same time as his, more modern, more complete. It's a disaster. 1780 Gamelin then accepts the management of the Academy of Montpellier, he establishes a drawing school there that will have a lot of trouble surviving, the means at its disposal are very thin, Gamelin housed and leanly paid will have difficult days, some orders come at the right time, so he decorates the dining room of the Hotel du Nord in Montpellier with four large canvases: two ancient battles and two under Louis XIV, decorates the coffee lounges, but also paints genre scenes on small-format wood, charming scenes in Flemish taste painted in a new way of his invention (At the Museum. Montauban). He made some portraits, including that of Mr. Fontanel, his friend and collaborator at the Academy of Montpellier, who owned J.L. David's painting "The Funeral of Patroclus" painted in Rome in 1779. Salon of 1781, sold to Fontanel (2,400 pounds) on March 12, 1782 (there is an autograph receipt of the transaction in the collection of Prof. Maurice Bloch) Gamelin will copy this painting in 1792 on this subject it would be interesting to know how Mr. Fontanel bought this painting of David, will it not be just through Gamelin who was also a merchant? See the receipt for the sale of a painting of Jouvenet in 1785 and the letters between Gamelin and Pillement (Hahn. Art and Curiosity) in the Pezenas Museum. 1781 His activities in Montpellier did not prevent him from working for the Cathedral of Carcassonne, exhibiting at the Salon of 1783 Toulouse. The school walks with increasing difficulties of its students only F.X. Fabre will reach notoriety he will bequeath to the museum that bears his name two drawings of his master "the flood" study for the painting of St Vincent's Church (1779) and a battle on blue paper. Discouraged Gamelin was replaced by Joseph Roque in 1783 and 1785 returned to Narbonne. Gamelin must support his family, he married an Italian Julia Tridix, of whom he has three children: two sons who will be painters like him and a daughter who will marry the miniaturist Advinent. Then begins the great period of productivity, too perhaps because his large canvases do not always have the necessary rigor. (In 1785 he painted no less than 10 large paintings: 6 for Sallèle d'Aude and 4 for St Just of Narbonne) moreover these orders are not always paid regularly, Gamelin struggles in financial difficulties he paints relentlessly for lovers of the region all kinds of subjects, he particularly likes the Vestales and the generosity of the Roman ladies. Gradually he abandoned large formats, and excelled in the large blue cameo designs in 1789 that earned him great notoriety. Gamelin met Jean Pillement, who had recently moved to Pezenas in the Mas "the hermitage", the beginning of a long friendship, the museum of Pezenas had a moving letter from Gamelin dated 14 July 1789 to the Chevalier de Fornier in Ginestas to offer him the purchase of two paintings and some drawings of Pillement. 1792 Comes the Revolution, Gamelin will take part, taking part in the "People's Society and Revolutionary of the Without 1792 panties of Narbonne" He will even decorate the choir of St Just to receive the statue of the Goddess Reason, he will settle the ceremonies in honor of the Feast of Liberty, the procession will be composed of young girls pouring perfume, milk and wine galore. During this period he organized the Museum of Carcassonne and thus saved a large part of the wealth of the churches and convents of Aude. 1793 Scrape the Roussillon War. Gamelin appointed Captain of Genius 1st Class is attached as a painter of the General Staff, he made portraits of Generals Dugomier and Dagobert, but especially the battles of Peyretortes, Boulou, the capture of Elne, Collioure, Port-Vendre, paintings that are found in the museums of Béziers, Narbonne and the prefecture of Perpignan, painted after the sketches made on the spot. 1796 Peace returned, he was appointed professor at the Central School of Aude in Carcassonne. Among his latest works are "The Drinker and His Family" from the Montpellier Museum, the Battle of Lodi that 1803 will finally see Louis Bonaparte his last work: the Battle of Marengo, a sketch that will be exhibited near his catafalque during the ceremonies of his funeral. Jacques Gamelin died on the 19th day (12 Oct 1803) of the month of Vendémiaire an XII at six o'clock in the evening, aged 62

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• Country : FRANCE
• Designer : Jacques GAMELIN
• Year of creation : 1799