Jean Baptiste Auguste Vinchon (5 August 1789 – 1855) was a French painter.
Empire
Jean-Baptiste-Auguste Vinchon was born in Paris on 5 August 1789. He became a painter of historical subjects, and a printer. Vinchon was a pupil of
Gioacchino Giuseppe Serangeli in his Paris studio.
He won the second
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...
for painting in 1813 and the first Prix de Rome in 1814 for his painting of ''Diagoras Carried in Triumph by His Sons''.
[Grunchec, P. (1985). ''The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the École des Beaux-Arts, 1797-1863''. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation. p. 63. .]
During the
First French Empire
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(1804–14) Vinchon and
Nicolas Gosse
Nicolas Louis François Gosse (2 October 1787 – 9 February 1878) was a French historical painter.
Biography
Gosse was born in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and under Vincent, and became a skilled representative of ...
painted a number of ''Scenes from Ancient Life'' in grey scale for the Louvre, based on the plates of ''
Antichità di Ercolano''.
Bourbon Restoration
In 1816–17 the
Comte de Blacas arranged for the church of
Santissima Trinità dei Monti, beside the
Villa Medici
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, to be renovated and redecorated. Former and current winners of the Prix de Rome were commissioned to undertake the work, including Vichon,
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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,
Henri-Joseph de Forestier
Henri-Joseph de Forestier, born at Santo Domingo, San Domingo in 1790, was a pupil of François-André Vincent, Vincent and Jacques-Louis David, David, and obtained in 1813 the Prix de Rome, first prize, which enabled him to go to Rome. There he ...
,
Léon Pallière,
François-Édouard Picot
François-Édouard Picot (; 10 October 1786 in Paris – 15 March 1868 in Paris) was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.
Life
Born in Paris, Picot won the Prix de Rome paintin ...
,
Jean Alaux and
Jean-Baptiste Thomas.
In 1822 Vinchon painted frescoes for a chapel at the
church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris
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During the
Bourbon Restoration Bourbon Restoration may refer to:
France under the House of Bourbon:
* Bourbon Restoration in France (1814, after the French revolution and Napoleonic era, until 1830; interrupted by the Hundred Days in 1815)
Spain under the Spanish Bourbons:
* ...
(1815–1830) and
July Monarchy
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(1830–1848) Vinchon would be considered one of the ''
juste milieu
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'' artists, who also included
Désiré Court,
Horace Vernet
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Biography
Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another ...
,
Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin
Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin (1797 in Bourges – 1883 in Paris) was a French painter, noted for his Orientalist works.
Life and career
The son of a couple of freeholders, Jean Callande and Gabrielle Lemonnier, Charles-Émile Cal ...
and
Ary Scheffer
Ary Scheffer (10 February 179515 June 1858) was a Dutch-French Romantic painter. He was known mostly for his works based on literature, with paintings based on the works of Dante, Goethe, and Lord Byron, as well as religious subjects. He was als ...
. This school steered a middle way between classicists such as
Auguste Couder
Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder or Auguste Couder (1 April 1789, in London – 21 July 1873, in Paris) was a French painter and student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Jacques-Louis David. He joined the Académie des beaux-arts in 1839 and was an off ...
and romantics such as
Eugène Delacroix
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.
In 1827 Vinchon was appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
After the
July Revolution
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, on 30 September 1830
François Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (; 4 October 1787 – 12 September 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848.
A conservative liberal who opposed the a ...
, the Minister of the Interior, initiated three competitions for paintings for the meeting room of the new chamber of deputies. Each of the paintings was to represent the duties of the deputy to resist tyranny and resist sedition. Three subjects were defined: The Oath of Louis-Philippe in the Chamber of Deputies in August 1830; the Protest by
Mirabeau
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People and characters
* Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), second President of the Republic of Texas
French nobility
* Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715–1789), French physiocrat
* Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, com ...
against the orders of
Louis XVI of France
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communicated to the States General by the
Henri Evrard, marquis de Dreux-Brézé; and
François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas
François-Antoine, Count of the Empire (1756–1826) was a French writer, lawyer and politician during the Revolution and the Empire.
Biography
Early career
Born to a Protestant family in Saint-Jean-Chambre, Ardèche, he studied Law and, afte ...
standing up to the mob.
![François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas standing up to the mob by Vinchon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Fran%C3%A7ois_Antoine_de_Boissy_d%27Anglas_standing_up_to_the_mob_by_Vinchon.jpg)
Vinchon won the competition for the third subject with his painting.
This depicted an incident on 20 May 1795 when the mob broke into the
National Convention
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, killed one of the deputies, and presented his head to Boissy on the end of a pike. Boissy saluted his comrade and retained his seat, saving the day and damaging the populist movement of the revolution.
Vinchon's painting represents the agitators as ferocious, crazed and moronic.
At the left of the picture agents are shown bribing one of the rioters.
A copy of the painting decorated one wall of the Hôtel de Ville of Paris for several years, but was burned during the fire of 1871.
In 1848 Vinchon painted
Louis Philippe
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As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary War ...
with his company visiting the Galerie de Pierre in Versailles to see how a statue of
Joan of Arc
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looked by torchlight.
The painting is now held by the Musée National in Versailles.
Last years
Vinchon became head of one of the leading printing houses in Paris, Impr. de Vinchon et C. de Mourgues.
He died at the bathing resort of
Ems, in the Duchy of Nassau, in 1855. His body was brought back to Paris to be inhumed in his family tomb.
He was buried on 23 August 1855.
Camille Doucet
Camille Doucet (16 May 1812 in Paris – 1 April 1895 in Paris) was a French poet and playwright.
Biography
Camille Doucet was born on 16 May, 1812, in Paris, France.
He was a solicitor's clerk and notary, the secretary of Baron Fain in the ...
spoke at his funeral, as did the foreman and the cashier of the printing house.
He was aged sixty-nine.
He is buried in the
Père Lachaise Cemetery
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in Paris.
Works
Vinchon's works exhibited in the Salon included:
* 1822 ''Dedication of the young Mazet'' 11 x 9.6 feet
* 1824 ''Death of Comola'';
* 1824 ''Joan of Arc on the walls of Orléans'' 10.6 x 9 feet
* 1827 ''Old Greek man sitting in the ruins of his burned house''
* 1827 ''Propertius and Cynthia at Tivoli''
* 1827 ''Shepherd near Rome asleep on the ruins of a tomb of emperor''
* 1850 ''Volunteer Enrollment of 1792'' A stylized view of an event in the Revolution, depicting an orderly procession of volunteers in neat uniforms
* 1855 ''Départ des volontaires''. This painting sold for 20,000 francs, a huge amount at the time.
Vinchon also painted various frescoes in Rome.
File:Guillaume Brune.jpg, Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune
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Early life
Bru ...
(1763–1815)
File:Prop and Cynth.jpg, Propertius and Cynthia at Tivoli
File:Portrait of Nency Destouches by Auguste Vinchon.jpg, Nency Destouches, 1829
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1789 births
1855 deaths
19th-century French painters
Painters from Paris
Prix de Rome for painting