Jean-Louis Prieur
Jean-Louis Prieur (1759 – 7 May 1795) was a French painter.
Also recorded as Jean Louis II Prieur · Jean Louis Prieur the Younger · J.-L. Prieur · Jean Louis, the younger Prieur
Jean-Louis Prieur
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- Born
- 1759. · Paris.
- Died
- 1795. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter, sculptor and artist.
- Languages
- French.
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Jean-Louis Prieur (1759 – 7 May 1795) was a French painter.
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Prieur was known as "le jeune" ("the Younger") to distinguish him from his father, the sculptor, artist and engraver Jean-Louis Prieur (1732-1795), a major figure in French neo-classicism. He was born in Paris and influenced by Cochin and Moreau le Jeune. Enthusiastic about the new ideas of the day, he produced more than sixty drawings or "tableaux historiques" (historical scenes) showing episodes from the French Revolution, now held at the Musée Carnavalet. He was a member of the 'section du Faubourg-Poissonnière' and in September 1793 a jury member on the revolutionary tribunal. Prieur was arrested after the Insurrection of 12 Germinal, Year III, tried alongside Fouquier-Tinville and guillotined in place de Grève on 7 May 1795, only a day after his father's death. He later served as the model for the character of Gamelin in Anatole France's 1912 novel Les dieux ont soif. A room in the Musée de la Révolution française bears the name of Jean-Louis Prieur.
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Prieur, Jean Louis, the younger Prieur and Jean Louis, II Prieur. His recorded language was French. He was the child of Jean Louis Prieur.
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1758
Jean-Louis Prieur was born on 1 January 1758.
1795
Jean-Louis Prieur died on 7 May 1795.
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- 1.« Le regard de Jean-Louis Prieur », Cahiers d'histoire, Espaces Marx, 2001, , .
- 2.Voir la présentation d'Élien Carassus au roman d'Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, 1989, 419 pages, .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Philippe de Carbonnières, Prieur, les Tableaux historiques de la Révolution : Catalogue raisonné des dessins originaux (préface de Claude Mazauric), Association Paris-Musées, Nicolas Chaudun, 2006, 198 pages .
- Marie-Anne Pirez, Marie-Hélène Trouvelot, Les Prieur, Éditions Archives & Culture, 1993, 96 pages, .
- Jules Renouvier, Histoire de l'art pendant la révolution, 1789-1804, Paris, Veuve Jules Renouard, 1863, En ligne.
- Warren Roberts, Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, revolutionary artists : the public, the populace, and images of the French Revolution, Suny Press, 2000, 370
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Jean-Louis Prieur is recorded with the occupation graphic artist. Recorded as painter, sculptor and artist. Connected to 2 other published records in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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