Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (16 June 1735 – 15 September 1784) was an 18th-century French painter and teacher of painting, the son of two well-known engravers at the time, François-Bernard Lépicié and Renée-Élisabeth Marlié. Lépicié was famous in his lifetime, and compared to Chardin and Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Greuze.
Life
Nicolas-Bernard studied with leading artists of the century including Carle Vanloo. In 1769 he was accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris. Three years later, in 1772, he became an assistant professor and, in 1777, a professor. He taught important names such as Carle Vernet, Jean-Frederic Schall, Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, Jean-Joseph Taillasson, Henri-Pierre Danloux, Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Nicolas-Antoine Taunay.
Work
Lépicié's work was visibly influenced by his father's friend, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, whose themes were a source of inspiration. Lépicié's subjects range from portraits (''Le Petit Dessinateur'' -1772; ''The Astronomer (i.e. Pierre Charles Le Monnier)'' - 1777) to history paintings (''Achilles and the Centaur Chiron'' - 1769) and genre scenes (''A Mother Feeding her Child'' - 1774, ''Cour de ferme'' - 1784).
Gallery
File:'Portrait of the Leroy Family' by Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, 1766, Pushkin Museum.JPG, ''Portrait de la famille Leroy'' (1766), Moscow, Pushkin Museum.
File:Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié - Adonis changé en anémone - 1782.jpg, ''Adonis changé en Anémone'' (c. 1768), Palace of Versailles.
File:Lépicié, Nicolas-Bernardt - Narcisse - 1771.jpg, ''Narcisse'' (1771), Saint-Quentin, Aisne, Saint-Quentin, .
Lepicieleverfanchon.jpg, ''Le Lever de Fanchon'' (1773), Saint-Omer, musée de l'hôtel Sandelin.
File:Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié - The Courtyard of the Customs House - WGA12900.jpg, ''L'Intérieur d'une douane'' (1775), Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
File:Le Jeune Dessinateur, Lépicié.png, ''Le Jeune Dessinateur'', Paris, musée du Louvre displayed at the ''Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec'' in 2008
File:Two Nude Male Figures - Nicolas Bernard Lépicié.jpg, ''Two Nude Male Figures'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
File:Seated Male Nude Facing Right - Nicolas Bernard Lépicié.jpg, ''Seated Male Nude Facing Right'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
References
Site officiel du musée du Louvre
* Philippe-Gaston Dreyfus, "Une dernière volonté de Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié" ''Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français'', 1er fascicule, Nogent-le-Rotrou, Daupeley-Gouverneur, 1910
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18th-century French painters
French male painters
Prix de Rome for painting
1735 births
Painters from Paris
1784 deaths
18th-century French male artists