Jean-Baptiste Hilaire ( or Hilair) (1751–1828) was a French painter.
Jean Baptiste Hilaire (Biographical details)
at the British museum
He was born at Audun-le-Tiche
Audun-le-Tiche (; ; ) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
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Audun-le-Tiche is located adjacent to Esch-sur-Alzette, on the border with Luxembourg, and close to the borders of German ...
in north-east France, the son of Jean-Francois Hiller (Hilaire) and Marie-Calixte Ronfort and enrolled in March 1786 at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris.
There he was a pupil of the painter Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the painter and sculptor Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (September 17, 1734 – September 30, 1781) was an important French etcher and painter. Le Prince first studied painting techniques in his native Metz. He then travelled to Paris around 1750 and became a leading student ...
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In 1776, aged 25, he toured the Greek islands and the Orient, creating over a hundred works which he used to illustrate his "Voyagé Pittoresque de la Grèce", published in three volumes in 1782. His talent became recognised and his work exhibited in Paris at such places as the Salon de la Jeunesse in 1780, and at the Salon de la Correspondence the same year. He took part in the official exhibitions of the Louvre in the salon of 1796.
He continued painting until 1796 after which he fades from the records. He died in Paris in 1828.
Selected works
* ''La Musique'', (Music), 1781, oil on canvas, 136 by 118 cm, Louvre Museum Inventory No 535
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* ''La Lecture'' (Reading), 1781, oil on canvas, 136 x 113 cm, Louvre Museum Inventory No 535
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* ''L'esclave heureux'' (The Happy Slave)
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* ''Paysage Oriental'' (Oriental landscape)
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Panthéon 1795.jpg , ''The Pantheon, Paris'', 1795
Versailles bassin aquatique.jpg, ''Fish Pool in the Jardin du Roy, Versailles''
Hilaire Mosquée de la Solimanie à Constantinople.png, ''Suleiman Mosque at Constantinople'', watercolour
Jean-Baptiste Hilair - Yeni Camii and The Port of İstanbul - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Yeni Camii (New Mosque) and The Port of İstanbul'', watercolour
References
* This article incorporates material from the equivalent article on French Wikipedia.
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1751 births
1828 deaths
French landscape painters
People from Moselle (department)