Nicolas Bernard Lépicié
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Life
Nicolas-Bernard studied with reputed artists of the century including Carle Vanloo. In 1769 he was accepted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris. Three years later, in 1770, he became an assistant professor and, in 1777, a professor. Important names such as Carle Vernet, Jean-Frederic Schall, Jean-Antoine-Théodore GiroustJean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust
Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust was a French neoclassical painter.In 1770, at age seventeen, Giroust started studying painting in the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien, a pioneer of Neoclassicism. Among other students was Jacques-Louis David....
, Jean-Joseph Taillasson
Jean-Joseph Taillasson
Jean-Joseph Taillasson was a French history painter and portraitist, draftsman and art critic.Taillasson was born at Blaye, near Bordeaux...
, Henri-Pierre Danloux
Henri-Pierre Danloux
Henri-Pierre Danloux was a French painter and draftsman.He was born in Paris. Brought up by his architect uncle, Danloux was a pupil of Lépicié and later of Vien, whom he followed to Rome in 1775...
, Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Jean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter.Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin...
and Nicolas-Antoine Taunay perfected their talent under his guidance.
Work
Lépicié's work was visibly influenced by his father's friend, talented ChardinJean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities...
, whose themes were a source of inspiration for the artist's latter paintings.
Nicolas Bernard Lépicié's collection of paintings is equally vast and various, ranging from portraits (Le Petit Dessinateur -1772) to historical scenes (Achilled and the Centaur Chiron - 1769) and domestic life reflections (A Mother Feeding her Child - 1774, Cour de ferme - 1784). For his paintings, Nicolas Bernard Lépicié revealed a preference for model Carle Vernet, who died the same year as the artist, 1784.
Lépicié reached his notoriety peak in the 18th century, when his work stood in comparison by that of Chardin and Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a French painter.-Early life:He was born at Tournus, Saône-et-Loire. He is generally said to have formed his own talent; this is, however, true only in the most limited sense, for at an early age his inclinations, though thwarted by his father, were encouraged by a...
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