Jacques-François Delyen
Illustration — Self-portrait (Musée des beaux-arts de Nîmes) Jacques-François Delyen (July 25, 1684 – March 3, 1761) was a French painter, specializing in portraits.
Also recorded as Jacques François Delyen · Jacques Francois de Lien · Leyen Delyen · Jean-François Deslyens
Jacques-François Delyen

Jacques-François Delyen · Turquin · Public domain
- Born
- 1684 · Ghent.
- Died
- 1761 · Paris.
- Nationality
- County of Flanders
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
- Teachers
- Nicolas de Largillière
- Languages
- French · Flemish Dutch
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Illustration — Self-portrait (Musée des beaux-arts de Nîmes) Jacques-François Delyen (July 25, 1684 – March 3, 1761) was a French painter, specializing in portraits.
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Training under Nicolas de Largillière is recorded. The recorded working language is French and Flemish Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Nicolas de Largillière is recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Ghent and Paris. Work by Jacques-François Delyen is recorded in the collections of Palace of Versailles, Musée de l'Histoire de France, Musée des beaux-arts de Nîmes and Museo de Arte de Ponce.
Delyen was born in Ghent. As an apprentice of Nicolas de Largillierre from 1710 to 1715. He was influenced by his works and style. In 1725, Deylen was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) based on his Academy pieces and his portraits of Nicolas Bertin and Guillaume Coustou. He exhibited his works regularly in the Academy between 1737 and 1747, before his demise in Paris on March 3, 1761. His 'Portrait dit de Jean de Paty de Rayet, seigneur du Rayé' was auctioned in 2014 for $7,607.
Self-portraits
Self-portraits
• c. 1710–1715, Zurich, coll. Rau. • 1714, Nîmes, musée des Beaux-Arts. • c. 1720–1725, vente Paris, galerie Georges Petit, 5 December 1929, lot. 7.
Portraits
Portraits
• Portrait of the artist's mother, 1714, Nîmes, musée des Beaux-Arts. • Portrait of Claude-Bernard Rousseau, v. 1710–1715, galerie Marcus en 1984. • Portraits of François la Goille de Courtagnon, maître des Eaux-et-Forêts de Champagne and his wife, 1724, Vente Paris, Galleria, 11 April 1962, lots 29 & 30. • La Marmotte, 1731, galerie Marcus en 1965. • Portrait of a man, 1739, galerie Heim en 1956. • Portrait of a woman at the well, 1742, Orléans, musée des Beaux-arts. • Man drinking under a vine, salon de 1745. • Portrait of Nicolas René Berryer, lieutenant de police, 1750, Troyes, musée des Beaux-arts. • Portrait of Nicolas René Berryer, navy minister, engraved by Jean-Georges Wille after Delyen, Versailles, musée national du château. • Portrait of Guillaume Coustou, sculpteur, 1725, Versailles, musée national du château. • Portrait of Nicolas Bertin, peintre, travaillant au dessin préparatoire pour son tableau Bacchus et Ariane, 1725, Versailles, musée National du château. • Portrait of Monsieur de Solmaquier hunting, 1738, Vente Paris, hôtel Drouot (Cornette de Saint-Cyr), 13 décembre 2006, lot. 54. • Portrait of a seated woman in a white dress. Pastel signed bottom left: « Lyen 1713 ». Vente Paris, hôtel Drouot (Ferri), 14 November 2004, lot. 25. • Portrait of René Aubert d'Aubeuf, abbé of Vertot, historian of the Order of Malta. Engraved by Laurent Cars after Delyen.
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Guillaume Coustou the Elder, 1724 • Illustration — Nicolas Bertin, 1725 • Illustration — Madame Delyen, the artist's mother, 1714, musée des beaux-arts de Nîmes
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Jacques François Delyen, Jacques Francois de Lien, Leyen Delyen, Jean-François Deslyens and Jacques Francois de Leyen. His recorded languages were French and Flemish Dutch.
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1684
Jacques-François Delyen was born in 1684 at Ghent.
1761
Jacques-François Delyen died in 1761 at Paris.
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- 1.Emmanuel Bénézit. Dictionary of artists. Band 4: Cossintino – Dyckx. 2006.
- 2.Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online / Artists of the World Online. 2009.
- 3.Jacques-Francois Delyen 12 Artworks at Auction MutualArt.
- 4.Eugène Le Brun-Dalbanne. : Le peintre De Lyen au musée de Troyes. 1876.
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