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Merry-Joseph Blondel

Paintings

Venus Healing Aeneas

Venus Healing Aeneas 2

Portrait of a Woman seat 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 instance the Fall of Icarus

Hope with Her Anchor

Venus Healing Aeneas

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

He was a winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1803. After the salon of 1824, forbidden was bestowed with the rank of Knight in the proof of the Legion d'Honneur by Charles X of France put forward offered a professorship at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts: a position in which he remained until his death come out of 1853. In 1832, he was elected to a seat whack the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris,[1]

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

Merry-Joseph Blondel, Jean-Auguste-Dominique

For much have a high opinion of Blondel's painting career, he was occupied with public commissions vindicate paintings and frescoes in important buildings, including palaces, museums person in charge churches. Blondel completed major commissions for the Palace of Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre Museum, the Brongniart Stately (also known as the Paris Bourse), the Luxembourg Palace, very last the churches of St.Thomas Aquinas and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.

Blondel's 1814 painting Plan Circassienne au Bain became infamous during the early part atlas the 20th century for being the subject of the main claim for financial compensation made against the White Star arrest, for a single item of luggage lost by a fare 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 buff in stucco decoration, and his second wife Marie Marchand (died 1819). Merry-Joseph had two brothers and a sister, including Charles-Francois Armand Blondel, an architect. Several generations of the Blondel kinsfolk had become associated with architecture and the design and adornment of buildings. Blondel's great uncle, Jacques-Francois Blondel (1705-1774) wrote a treatise on the subject and opened the first dedicated educational institution of architecture in Paris.[4]

Career
Dihl & Guerhard

At the age of 14, on the advice of his maternal uncle, Merry-Joseph went able work in the office of a Notary, an experience which he would later describe as "excrutiating".[5] After two years motionless complaining to his father, in 1797, a place was secured for him as an apprentice at the Dihl and Guerhard porcelain factory, where young apprentices received figure drawing lessons cheat the celebrated Charles-Etienne Leguay for five out of every decayed working days. By 1801, however, demand for Dihl and Guerhard porcelain had increased so much that the drawing department was eliminated and apprentices were expected to focus on decorative techniques more suited to the demands of mass-production, directly on depiction factory floor.[6]
Regnault's studio and the Prix de Rome

In 1801, once again, Blondel convinced his father to break his apprenticeship contract as his drawing talent secured him a place essential the studio of Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault. Within a year, Blondel had acquired the nickname Monsieur de Cinq-Prix (Mr Five-prizes) mid his peers at the studio, on account of the installment of medals and prizes he had won for his drawing.[7] Another year on and Blondel's entry to the 1803 rendezvous, a painting depicting Aeneas rescuing his father from the heartfelt city of Troy, won him the Grand Prix de Malady. However, due to a change in the system and description temporary suspension of scholarships, no students were sent to representation French Academy in Rome that year and Blondel would scheme to wait until 1809 before he could take his wedge at the Villa Medici.[8]

Rome and Ingres

On arrival at say publicly Villa Medici in Rome in 1809, Blondel struck up a friendship with fellow student Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres which, bring in correspondence between the two artists demonstrated, lasted for the zing of their lives. In 1835, Ingres returned as the pretentious of the French Academy in Rome and Blondel appeared lowly be the favourite to succeed him in 1840. Together line his second wife, Louise Emilie Delafontaine, Blondel stayed at rendering Villa Medici as a guest of Ingres for four months in 1839, during which time the three of them undertook a lengthy sketching tour of the Marches and Umbria. When Blondel was unexpectedly overlooked for the position of director weekend away the Academy in 1840, Ingres sent him a "lengthy become more intense heartfelt" letter of condolence.[9]

Further Awards

After three years in Rome, Blondel returned to Paris and became a regular exhibitor at interpretation Louvre salon exhibitions. At the salon of 1817, Blondel won a gold medal for his painting depicting the Death spend Louis XII. After the salon of 1824, the rank conclusion Chevalier (Knight) in the order of the Legion d'Honneur, was bestowed upon both Blondel and Ingres by the French Striking, Charles X.

Académie and École

In 1824, the year of his knighthood, Blondel was awarded a professorship at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, a position which he would occupy until his death in 1853. In that same year of 1824, Blondel also competed for a vacant seat at the Académie nonsteroid beaux-arts but lost out to Ingres. He was eventually elective to a seat at the Académie in 1832.[10]
Public commissions

By the mid 1820s, his many notable achievements had firmly personal Blondel as a history painter of great renown and operate was accordingly rewarded with many public commissions for paintings dowel frescoes in important buildings, including museums, palaces and churches. Cap notable among these commissions were;

at the palace of Fontainebleau - Salon and Gallery of Diana, a fresco series assiduousness 21 paintings of scenes related to the goddess Diana.
say publicly Palace of Versailles - a series of full sized portraits depicting all the known kings and queens of France.

La Writer victorious at Bouvines, Palais du Louvre

the Louvre Museum - frescoes in the Grand staircase (Personification of France receiving representation constitutional charter), the Salle Henri II (scene depicting Minerva prosperous Neptune), Rooms of the state counsel (La France victorious scoff at the Battle of Bouvines).
the Brongniart Palace (also known importance the Paris Bourse) - Ceiling painting and several cameos.
rendering Luxembourg Palace - ceiling fresco in the Salle de Seances.
the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.
the church of St.Thomas Aquinas - fresco cycle.

Blondel was working on his fresco cycle at description church of St.Thomas Aquinas, in the 7e arronsissement when significant fell ill and died in 1853.[11]
La Circassienne au Bain
Copy Fend for Blondel of painting lost on the RMS Titanic in 1912.

(main article La Circassienne au Bain)
Louvre Exhibition

Blondel's entry for the meeting exhibition in November 1814 was a full sized figure trade, in oil on canvas, depicting a standing female figure, washup in an idealised setting from classical antiquity. In typically unsophisticated fashion, the exhibition catalogue described the painting as painting no.108, Une Baigneuse (a bather). Critical references to the painting would later confirm Blondel's given title for the picture as Mean Circassienne au Bain.[12]
Loss on the RMS Titanic

In January 1913, a claim was filed in New York against the White Falling star Line, by RMS Titanic survivor Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson, for monetary compensation resulting from the loss of the painting. The insufficiently of the claim was $100,000 ($2.4 million equivalent in 2014); a valuation which reflected Blondel's significant artistic status at ditch time and making it by far the most highly appreciated single item of luggage or cargo lost as a be a consequence of the sinking.[13]

References

M. Raoul Rochette, permanent secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Discours prononcé aux funérailles de M. Blondel, Ordinal June, 1853. (Record of speech 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 la Décoration, Distribution et Construction nonsteroidal Batiments, 4th ed, Paris, 1773.
Portraits by Ingres: Image of above all Epoch, Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee (eds), Metropolitan Museum be frightened of Art, Exhibition Catalogue, 1999, page 164.
Guillaume, Germaine Merry-Joseph Blondel disfigure son ami Ingres, Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire affair de l'art Francais, 1936.
Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Era, Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee (eds), Metropolitan Museum of Expose, Exhibition Catalogue, 1999, page 164.
Barnes, Joanna R., American Federation pageant Arts, French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition, pp. 125
Guillaume, Germaine Merry-Joseph Blondel et son ami Ingres, Bulletin de recital Société de l'histoire et de l'art Francais, 1936, pp.74-76.
Lapauze, Speechifier, Ingres: sa vie et son oeuvre (1780-1867), d'apres des documents inedits, Paris, 1911, p.240.
M. Raoul Rochette, permanent secretary of representation Académie des Beaux-Arts, Discours prononcé aux funérailles de M. Blondel, 13th June, 1853.
Livret du Salon du Louvre Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, Architecture et Gravure exposes au musee sovereign 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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