Jean-Charles Tardieu

Training under Charles-Nicolas Cochin and Jean-Baptiste Regnault is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Jean-Baptiste Regnault is recorded as an influence. Works named in the authority record are Napoleon I receives the Queen of Prussia in Tilsitt. Work by Jean-Charles Tardieu is recorded in the collections of Musée de l'Histoire de France, Musée des Augustins, Palace of Versailles, Musée Bossuet and Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille.

• Name — Jean-Charles Tardieu • Born — 3 September 1765 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 3 April 1830 • Place of death — Paris, France

• Illustration — Halte de l'armée française à Syène 2 février 1799 Jean-Charles Tardieu was born on 3 September 1765 in Paris, son of Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu and Elisabeth Claire Tournay. His father and his grandfather, Nicolas-Henri Tardieu, were both members of the Academy and the King's engravers. His father's cousin was the engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin, who left him a small legacy when he died in 1790. Cochin also treated him as a sort of pupil and gave him advice. He was formally placed under Jean-Baptiste Regnault for his artistic training. He failed to get the Grand Prix de Rome, but the second prize of the Prix de Rome was awarded to him in 1790. His father died on 9 July 1791. A passionate artist with great skill in composition, Tardieu exhibited in various salons, and achieved considerable success. He took part in a number of exhibitions in the Louvre between 1806 and 1823. In 1808 he was granted a housing allowance. The great majority of his works were bought by the government or commissioned by the government. Tardieu had excellent connections and seems to have been fully employed during the reigns of Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and Charles X of France. Several of his works were bought for the house of the latter sovereign. He made a large number of tableaux for the government, which were placed in the Luxembourg, Versailles, Saint-Cloud, Fontainebleau and Compiègne palaces and also at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'archéologie de Besançon, Rouen Cathedral, Nîmes Cathedral and Lons-le-Saulnier Cathedral. In his later years, Tardieu worked on religious tableaux and landscapes. Tardieu died in Paris on 3 April 1830. His son Jules-Romain Tardieu was born in Rouen on 28 January 1805. Jules was to become a connoisseur of the arts and letters, a writer, publisher and bookseller, and a member of the Academy of Caen.

• Illustration — Trait de bienfaisance de Napoléon Ier pendant la campagne de Pologne en janvier 1807. Tardieu-Cochin's work was primarily historical. He often took classical and poetic subjects. He also made copies of several paintings of saints by Philippe de Champaigne that were commissioned by the king's house. Almost all his works are held in public collections including, among others, those in the Rouen Cathedral, and in the museums of Besançon, Le Havre, Marseille and Versailles. Among the most successful are Halte en Égypte, Jean Bart à la cour, la Conversion du duc de Joyeuse, Frédéric-Guillaume chez le grand Frédéric, Louis XVIII à Mittau et l’Aveugle au marché des Innocents.

• Illustration — Joseph Recognized by His Brothers, 1788 • Illustration — Napoléon reçoit la reine de Prusse à Tilsit, 1808 • Illustration — Une Scene du Marche des Innocents, 1814. Paris: Musée du Louvre département des Peintures • Illustration — Louis XVIII couronne la rosière de Mittau. 1799, 1817 • Illustration — Halte d'Henri IV en forêt. Pau: Musée national du château de Pau • Illustration — Sully aux pieds d'Henri IV. Pau: Musée national du château de Pau • Illustration — La Clemence de Louis XII. Avril 1498. Versailles: musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon

The authorities additionally record the headings Jean Charles Tardieu and Tardieu-Cochin. His recorded language was French. He was the child of Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu and Élisabeth-Claire Tardieu. Other recorded relations include Nicolas-Henri Tardieu and Marie-Anne Tardieu.