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Joseph Vivien
(1657 - 5th Dec, 1734)
Portrait de Girardon, sculpteur
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michèle Bellot
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
François Girardon
portrait of a man
modern costume
supported (on something)
three-quarter left view
personnalité des Beaux-Arts
wig
sculpture (representation of)
sculptor (profession)
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About the artwork
Title:
Portrait de Girardon, sculpteur
Periods:
modern age
17th century
18th century
XVIIth century
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
pastel
Dimensions:
880 x 720
Inventory number:
INV33291-recto
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Joseph Vivien
Born:
1657
Dead:
5th Dec, 1734
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Joseph Vivien
(1657 – 5 December 1735) was a French painter of Lyon. He left his native Lyon for Paris at the age of twenty and found employment in the large atelier of Charles Le Brun, the equivalent of an academy. He made his reputation by his portraits in pastels, to which he gave a sparkle and immediacy hitherto unreached in that medium. He was received in the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1701, under the designation
peintre en pastel
. He was appointed counsellor to the…
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