Joseph-Marie Vien

Joseph-Marie Vien
Portrait by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1784
Born	(1716-06-18)18 June 1716 Montpellier, France
Died	27 March 1809(1809-03-27) (aged 92) Paris, France
Occupation	painter

Joseph-Marie Vien (sometimes anglicised as Joseph-Mary Wien; 18 June 1716 – 27 March 1809) was a French painter. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791.

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Biography

He was born in Montpellier. Protected by Comte de Caylus, he entered at an early age the studio of Natoire, and obtained the grand prix in 1745. He used his time at Rome in applying to the study of nature and the development of his own powers all that he gleaned from the masterpieces around him; but his tendencies were so foreign to the reigning taste that on his return to Paris he owed his admission to the academy for his picture Daedalus and Icarus (Louvre) solely to the indignant protests of François Boucher.^[1]

When in 1776, at the height of his established reputation, he became director of the school of France at Rome, he refused to take Jacques-Louis David with him amongst his pupils, stating he was too old to teach a young artist. After his return, five years later, his fortunes were wrecked by the French Revolution; but he undauntedly set to work, and at the age of eighty (1796) carried off the prize in an open government competition. Napoleon Bonaparte acknowledged his merit by making him a senator.^[1]

Joseph-Marie Vien died in Paris, and was buried in the crypt of the Panthéon. He left behind him many other brilliant pupils, amongst whom were François-André Vincent, Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, François-Guillaume Ménageot, Jean-Joseph Taillasson and others of high merit; nor should the name of his wife, Marie-Thérèse Reboul (1728–1805), herself a member of the academy, be omitted from this list. Their son, Marie Joseph, born in 1761, also distinguished himself as a painter.^[1]

Works

Sainte Marthe recevant le Christ à Bethanie (1747), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
Saint Jérôme méditant sur un crâne, La Fère, Musée Jeanne d'Aboville
La résurrection de Lazare (1747), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
L'embarquement de sainte Marthe (1751), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
L'arrivée de sainte Marthe en Provence (1748), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
La prédication de sainte Marthe (1748), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
L'agonie de sainte Marthe (1748), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
Les funérailles de sainte Marthe (1748), Église Sainte-Marthe, Tarascon
Hermite endormi (1753), Musée du Louvre
Dédale dans le Labyrinthe attachant les ailes à Icare (1754), Musée du Louvre
St Theresa of Avila (1754–55), New Orleans Museum of Art
La Douce Mélancolie (1756), Cleveland Museum of Art
L'Enlèvement de Proserpine (1762), Museum of Grenoble
La Marchande d'amours (1763), Palace of Fontainebleau
Une Femme qui sort des bains, 1763, (huile 95x68 cm) (private collection)^[2]
Saint Denis préchant (1767), Church of Saint-Roch, Paris
Grecque au bain (1767), Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Jeunes grecques parant de fleurs l'Amour endormi (1773), Musée du Louvre
Venus, Wounded by Diomedes, is Saved by Iris (1775), Columbus Museum of Art
Les adieux d'Hector et d'Andromaque (1786), Musée du Louvre
Love Fleeing Slavery (1789), Princeton University Art Museum
Saint Louis remet la régence à sa mère, Saint-Louis Chapel, École Militaire, Paris
Toilette d'une jeune mariée dans le costume antique, (100x135 cm) (private collection)^[3]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Vien, Joseph Marie". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 50.
^ Auctioned €426,685 on 26 March 2004 Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot.
^ Auctioned €401,487 in June 1992 by Sotheby's Monaco.