Antoine Ansiaux
Jean Joseph Eleonora Antoine Ansiaux (1764–1840) was a Belgian-born historical and portrait painter who worked in France.
Jean Joseph Eleonora Antoine Ansiaux | |
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 Autoportrait, 1796 | |
| Born | 1764 Liège, Belgium |
| Died | 1840 Paris, France |
Life
Ansiaux, a pupil of François-André Vincent, was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1764.
His elder brother, Emmanuel Antoine Joseph Ansiaux (1761-1800), worked in politics and law, a pathway the younger Ansiaux was to have taken before turning to art.[1][2][3]
His works, taken from sacred and profane history, and poetical subjects, are numerous, and place him among the best artists of the French school in the 19th century. He also painted portraits of several distinguished persons, ministers, and generals of Napoleon I.
He was known for working in the Romantic-inspired Troubadour style of French historical painting. The Grove Dictionary of Art criticized his works done in this style, calling them "very uneven" and "often laborious."[4]
Death
Ansiaux died in Paris in 1840.
Works
His works include:
- Angers. Cathedral: Raising of the Cross, 1827.
- Arras. Cathedral: Resurrection
- Bordeaux. Museum: Richelieu presenting Poussin to Louis XIII, 1817.
- Le Mans. Cathedral: Adoration of the Kings.
- Liège Cathedral: Ascension, 1812 and Conversion of St. Paul, 1814.
- Liège, Hôtel-de-Ville: Return of the Prodigal Son, 1819.
- Lille. Museum: St. John rebuking Herod, 1822 and finding of Moses, 1822.
- Metz. Cathedral: The Flagellation.
- Paris, S. Etienne-du-Mont: St. Paul preaching at Athens.
Gallery
Portrait de Constance Charpentier Huile sur toile, c. 1800
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Emmanuel Crétet, comte de Champmol (1747-1809), 1810_Margaretha_van_Bourgondi%C3%AB%252C_gravin_van_Tonnerre_-_Godshuis_van_Tonnerre_20-10-2016_17-46-06.jpg.webp)
Margaretha van Bourgondië, gravin van Tonnerre, c. 19th century.jpg.webp)
Portrait du général français Jean-Baptiste Kléber, général en chef de l'Armée d'Orient (1753-1800), 1804
Presentation of Christ in the Temple, 1785![Portrait of Michel-Laurent de Sélys-Longchamps [fr], Belgian politician, date unknown; now in the collection of the University of Liège](../I/S%C3%A9lys_Longchamps_Edmond_de_1813-1900.jpg.webp)
Portrait of Michel-Laurent de Sélys-Longchamps, Belgian politician, date unknown; now in the collection of the University of Liège
References
- Forgotten French Art from the First to the Second Empire: Autumn Exhibition, Nov. 23-Dec. 22, 1978. Heim Gallery. 1978.
- Joseph Thomas (1901). Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology: Aa to Her. J.B. Lippincott. pp. 143–.
- Institut archéologique liégeois (1888). Bulletin de l'institut archeologique liegeois. Institut archélogique liégeois. pp. 231–.
- Jane Turner, ed. (2000). The Grove Dictionary of Art: From Renaissance to Impressionism: Styles and Movements in Western Art 1400-1900. St. Martin's Press. pp. 355–. ISBN 978-0-312-22975-7.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Ansiaux, Jean-Joseph-Eleonora-Antoine". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.