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Jacques Sablet

Jacques Sablet Portrait du peintre Conrad Gessner dans la campagne romaine oil painting on canvas
Portrait du peintre Conrad Gessner dans la campagne romaine
Painting ID::  82400
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Jacques Sablet Portrait du peintre Conrad Gessner dans la campagne romaine oil painting on canvas



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  Jacques Sablet
  Jacques Sablet (1749 - 1803) was a Swiss painter. Son of a decorator and gilder from Lausanne, he studied with his father before moving to Paris in 1772; there he worked with Joseph-Marie Vien for three years. When in 1775 Vien was named director of the French Academy in Rome, Sablet accompanied him there. His ambition was to be a history painter, but facing competition from Jacques-Louis David and Pierre Peyron, among others, and lacking solid academic training, he could win no commissions. Instead he turned to portraiture , genre painting, and landscape painting. Most of his genre scenes depicted the city's everyday life and customs of the Campagna. Sablet shared a studio with history painter Hubert Drouais and was friends with Simon Denis. He fled to Florence in 1793 with the rise of anti-French sentiment in the Papal States, but perhaps because of the competition he would face there from Louis Gauffier he soon returned to Paris.
  Portrait du peintre Conrad Gessner dans la campagne romaine
  1788(1788) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 39 x 30 cm (15.4 x 11.8 in) cyf

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