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Jacques-Henri Sablet (1749–1803) was a French Web Gallery of Art, Biography Jean-François Sablet (b. 1745, Morges, Vaud, d. 1819, Nantes).
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Jacques-Henri Sablet (1749–1803) was a French painter
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, part of a family of artists of Swiss
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origin.
Sablet was born in Lausanne
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. He studied with his father, the painter and picture dealer Jacob Sablet (1720–1798), before moving to Paris
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in 1772. There, he and his older brother Jean-François Sablet
Jean-François Sablet (23 November 1745 – 24 February 1819) was a French painter; part of a family of artists of Swiss origin.
Biography
Jean-François Sablet was born in Morges. He studied with his father, the painter and picture dealer Ja ...
(1745–1819) studied at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (; en, "Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abol ...
as pupils of Joseph-Marie Vien
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.
Biography
He was born in Montpellier ...
. Jean-François studied at the Académie in 1768–1773 and Jacques-Henri in 1772–1775. Although their careers did not follow a similar course, the attribution of their works has frequently been confused.
When in 1775 Vien was named director of the French Academy in Rome
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, Sablet accompanied him there. In rome he painted ''Le premier pas de l'enfance'' (''Primi passi'', in Italian) (1789
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): today that painting belongs to Pedriali Collection (''Collezione Pedriali''), in the City Museum of Forlì
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The city is situated along the Via E ...
(Italy
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).
His ambition was to be a history painter
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, but facing competition from Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...
and Pierre Peyron
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, among others, and lacking solid academic training, he could win no commissions. Instead he turned to portrait
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ure, genre painting
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, and landscape painting
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. Most of his genre scenes depicted the city's everyday life and customs of the Campagna
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.
Jacques-Henri Sablet shared a studio with history painter Hubert Drouais
Hubert Drouais (; 5 May 1699 1 – 9 February 1767) was a French Painting, painter, portraitist and miniaturist.
Drouais was born in Pont-Audemer in Normandy, the son of Anne Talon and the painter Jean Drouais. Hubert followed in his father’s ...
and was friends with Simon Denis
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Life
Denis first studied in his native city of Antwerp, with the landscape painting, landscape and ...
. He fled to Florence
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in 1793 with the rise of anti-French sentiment in the Papal States
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, but perhaps because of the competition he would face there from Louis Gauffier
Louis Gauffier (1762–1801) was a French painter. Born in Poitiers, he studied in Paris with the history painting, history painter Hughes Taraval before entering the Prix de Rome competition which he won in 1779 for ''Christ and the Woman of Can ...
he soon returned to Paris. He accompanied Lucien Bonaparte
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when the latter was named ambassador
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to Madrid
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in 1800, serving as an adviser on his art collection./ref> He died in Paris in 1803.
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