Nicolas Bernard Lépicié

Nicolas-Bernard studied with leading artists of the century including Carle Vanloo. In 1769 he was accepted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris. Three years later, in 1772, he became an assistant professor and, in 1777, a professor. He taught important names such as Carle Vernet, Jean-Frederic Schall, Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, Jean-Joseph Taillasson, Henri-Pierre Danloux, Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Nicolas-Antoine Taunay.

Lépicié's work was visibly influenced by his father's friend, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, whose themes were a source of inspiration. Lépicié's subjects range from portraits (Le Petit Dessinateur -1772; The Astronomer (i.e. Pierre Charles Le Monnier) - 1777) to history paintings (Achilles and the Centaur Chiron - 1769) and genre scenes (A Mother Feeding her Child - 1774, Cour de ferme - 1784).

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  Portrait de la famille Leroy (1766), Moscow, Pushkin Museum.
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  Adonis changé en Anémone (c. 1768), Palace of Versailles.
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  Narcisse (1771), Saint-Quentin, Antoine-Lécuyer Museum.
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  Le Lever de Fanchon (1773), Saint-Omer, musée de l'hôtel Sandelin.
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  L'Intérieur d'une douane (1775), Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
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  Le Jeune Dessinateur, Paris, musée du Louvre displayed at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in 2008
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  Two Nude Male Figures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Seated Male Nude Facing Right at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Philippe-Gaston Dreyfus, "Une dernière volonté de Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié" Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1er fascicule, Nogent-le-Rotrou, Daupeley-Gouverneur, 1910

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