Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (born in
Rouen on 11 November 1738 – died in Paris on 7 May 1826) was a writer, illustrator and painter of French history.
By 1780 he was an official painter of the King of France.
He was the father of artist
Élise Bruyère.
Work
His most famous work was a representation of the
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (french: Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789, links=no), set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolu ...
made in 1789. He also designed the suite of tapestries of the four contingents (1790–91).
File:Africa from a set of The Four Continents MET DT1848.jpg, ''Africa'' from a set of The Four Continents
File:Asia from a set of The Four Continents MET DT1849.jpg, ''Asia'' from a set of The Four Continents
File:Turkish Bathscape.png, ''Turkish Bathscape 1785,'' illustration from the book, ''The Harem''
File:Lebarbier Bagno turco.jpg, ''The Hammam 1785''
File:Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier - A Spartan Woman Giving a Shield to Her Son.jpg, ''A Spartan Woman Giving a Shield to Her Son],'' before 1826
File:Bacchanal MET DP830897.jpg, Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash with touches of watercolor (circa 1765 –66)
File:Drawing, Porcelain Candlestick, 1770–80 (CH 18170383).jpg, Drawing, Porcelain Candlestick, 1770–1780
File:Drawing, Design for a Bronze Candlestick, ca. 1800 (CH 18170389-2).jpg, Drawing, Design for a Bronze Candlestick, ca. 1800
Select list of work
* ''Courage des femmes de Sparte se défendant contre les Messéniens'',
Musée du Louvre
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...
, Paris;
* ''Étude de femme en fureur'',
Musée Magnin
The Musée Magnin is a national museum in the French city of Dijon in Burgundy, in the Côte-d'Or department, with a collection of around 2,000 works of art collected by Maurice Magnin and his sister Jeanne and bequeathed to the state in 1938 alo ...
de
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
;
* ''Henri IV et Sully à Fontainebleau'',
Musée des beaux-arts de Pau;
* ''Jupiter endormi sur le mont Ida'',
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Scienc ...
de Paris;
* ''La Grotte d’Égérie'',
Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen is an art museum in Rouen, in Normandy in north-western France. It was established by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1801, and is housed in a building designed by and built between 1877 and 1888. Its collections include ...
;
* ''Le Vieux Mari'',
Musée Cantini de
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
;
* ''Les Amants surpris'', Musée Cantini de Marseille;
* ''Martyre de saint Sébastien'', Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen;
* ''Scène d’Amérique du Nord'', Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen;
* ''Un Canadien et sa femme pleurant sur le tombeau de leur enfant'', Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, tableau interprété en gravure par
François Robert Ingouf;
[ Dictionnaire Bénézit, Gründ, 1999, ''François Robert Ingouf'', tome 7, page 347.]
* ''Le Courage héroïque du jeune Désilles, le 31 août 1790, à l'Affaire de Nancy'', Vizille,
musée de la Révolution française
The Musée de la Révolution française (Museum of the French Revolution) is a departmental museum in the French town of Vizille, south of Grenoble on the Route Napoléon. It is the only museum in the world dedicated to the French Revolution.
I ...
;
* ''L'Apothéose de Rameau'',
Musée d'art et d'histoire de Toul;
* ''Portrait de Madame Roland'',
Musée d'art de Toulon;
* ''L'Apothéose de Lulli'', Musée d'Art et d'histoire de Toul;
* ''La Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789'',
Musée Carnavalet
The Musée Carnavalet in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city. The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. On the advice of Baron Haussmann, the civil servant wh ...
, Paris.
References
External links
Writers from Rouen
18th-century French painters
French male painters
19th-century French painters
French history painters
19th-century French writers
1738 births
1826 deaths
French male writers
19th-century French male writers
19th-century French male artists
Artists from Rouen
18th-century French male artists
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