Édouard Viénot
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Édouard Viénot (13 September 1804 – 1884) was a French portrait painter.


Biography

He was born in
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, on 13 September 1804. He entered the
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in Paris on 4 October 1822. Viénot is probably to be identified with "Le chevalier Viennot" who was active as a portrait painter in London in 1826 and 1827, when he had an address at 20
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, Portman Square. From this address he exhibited two paintings at the
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in 1826 (Miss Paton of Covent Garden Theatre and Sir Robert Shaw, Bart., of Dublin) and three paintings at the Society of British Artists (now the Royal Society of British Artists) in 1827 (''Portrait of Miss Paton'', presumably the same as the Royal Academy picture, ''Portrait of Madame Viennot'', presumably the artist's wife or mother, and ''Portrait of the Marchioness of Downshire''). All three of these paintings are catalogued in the "watercolour, miniature or print" category. In France, Viénot's paintings were regularly selected by the jury of the
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between 1831 and 1870, and included ''Portrait du lieutenant-colonele baron S...'' and ''Portrait de Mademoiselle Delille, artiste de l'Opéra Comique, dans le 2me acte des Diamants de la Couronne'' (both at the Paris Salon 1846); ''Étude de Femme''; ''Portrait de Monsieur S...'' and ''Portrait de Madame S...'' (all at the Paris Salon 1857); ''Miss icP. N. J...''; ''étude'' (Paris Salon 1859); ''Portrait de Mademoiselle Jeanne Tordeus, du théâtre impérial de l'Odéon'' (Paris Salon 1861); ''Portrait de Madame A. Musard'' (Paris Salon 1863); ''Portrait de Madame ...'' (Paris Salon 1864); ''Portrait de Mademoiselle Guerra du Théâtre-Italien'' and ''Portrait de Monsieur Saint-Germain du théâtre du Vaudeville'' (both at the Paris Salon 1865); ''Portrait de Mademoiselle B. de C...'' (Paris Salon 1866); ''Portrait de Madame L. D. R...'' and ''Portrait de Monsieur A. L...'' (both at the Paris Salon 1870). Viénot also painted
Marie Duplessis Marie Duplessis (born Alphonsine Rose Plessis; 15 January 1824 – 3 February 1847) was a French courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent and wealthy men. She was the inspiration for Marguerite Gautier, the main character of the 1848 nov ...
(reproduced in the Royal Opera's programme for Verdi's 1853 opera '' La Traviata'' at the Royal Albert Hall in May 1998). Marie Duplessis was the real-life actress and courtesane on whom Dumas modelled the heroine in his 1848 novel ''
La Dame aux Camélias ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (), sometimes called ''Camille'' in English, is a novel by Alexandre Dumas ''fils''. First published in 1848 and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage, the play premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in P ...
'', on which ''La Traviata'' is based. Viénot's portrait of the Emperor
Pedro II of Brazil ''Don (honorific), Dom'' PedroII (Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga; 2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed the Magnanimous (), was the List o ...
is in the Imperial Museum in Brazil (housed in what was formerly his summer palace). Also in Brazil is his ''Retrato de Menina'' portrait of a young girl in a blue dresswhich hangs in the Museu Regional de São João del-Rei. Viénot identified himself in the Salon catalogues as a pupil of Guérin and Hersent. Paulin Guérin (1783-1855), official painter to the royal family and aristocracy in the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, was "one of the most prominent portrait painters of the Restoration" (''Dictionary of Art'' (1996) vol 13, pp 790–791).
Louis Hersent Louis Hersent (10 March 1777 – 2 October 1860) was a French painter. Life and career He was born in Paris. He became a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, and obtained the in 1797. In the Salon of 1802, he showed ''Metamorphosis of Narcissus'', a ...
(1777-1860) was a gold medallist at the Salon of 1806, elected a member of the Institut 1822, and appointed professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts 1825. Viénot died in 1884, aged 79. Viénot did some portraits for different Spanish families established in South America during that period. A sample of them are the portraits he did for the family González del Collado.


Gallery

Image:Pedro II por Édouard Viénot.jpg,
Pedro II of Brazil ''Don (honorific), Dom'' PedroII (Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga; 2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed the Magnanimous (), was the List o ...
Image:Édouard Viénot - Portrait de Marie Duplessis, dite la dame aux camélias.jpg,
Marie Duplessis Marie Duplessis (born Alphonsine Rose Plessis; 15 January 1824 – 3 February 1847) was a French courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent and wealthy men. She was the inspiration for Marguerite Gautier, the main character of the 1848 nov ...
Image:Irineu Evangelista de Sousa.jpg, Irineu Evangelista de Sousa


References

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