Michel Corneille the Elder (c. 1601 – 1664) was a French
painter
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,
etcher
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, and
engraver.
Life
Corneille was born in
Orléans
Orléans (;["Orleans"](_blank)
(US) and [Simon Vouet
Simon Vouet (; 9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and m ...]
, who strongly influenced French painting of the early 17th century.
In 1648, Corneille was one of the founders of the
French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and was elected as one of the original twelve elders in charge of its running.
''Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture depuis 1648 jusqu'en 1664''
Ed. Anatole de Montaiglon
Anatole de Courde de Montaiglon (28 November 1824 – 1 September 1895) was a 19th-century French librarian and art historian.
Biography
In 1850, De Montaignon graduated as an archivist and palaeographer from the École des chartes, with a the ...
, Paris 1853, vol. I, p. 36. He became its rector in 1656.
Corneille devoted himself to historical paintings. He was an excellent colorist—in this more Venetian than French—and his early style resembled that of Simon Vouet; later his work had all the merits and all the faults of the post-Raphaelite, or decadent, "sweet", school of Italian art, showing the far-reaching influence of the Carracci The Carracci were a family of Italian artists. Notable members include:
* Agostino Carracci (1557–1602), Italian painter and printmaker
* Annibale Carracci (1560–1609), Italian Baroque painter and brother of Agostino Carracci
* Ludovico Carracc ...
. He was long employed in the decoration of churches in Paris, his masterpiece being the celebrated "St. Paul and St. Barnabas at Lystra", painted for the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. His etched and engraved work differed very little from that of the Carracci and of his two sons. It was chiefly reproductive. Notable examples are the "Murder of the Innocents", after Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of works by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of ...
, and the "Virgin Suckling the Infant Jesus", after Lodovico Carracci
Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early- Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light ...
. He died in Paris in 1664.
References
Bibliography
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*MEYER, Geschichte der französischen Malerei (Leipzig, 1867)
* ''That entry was written by Leigh Hunt.''
External links
''Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi''
a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Michel Corneille the Elder (see index)
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17th-century French painters
French male painters
History painters
Painters from Paris
1600s births
1664 deaths