Joseph-Benoît Suvée
Joseph-Benoît Suvée (3 January 1743 – 9 February 1807) was a Flemish painter strongly influenced by French neo-classicism.
Also recorded as Feu M. r Joseph-Benoît · Joseph Benoît Suvée · Feu . r Suvée · Suvé de Bruges
Joseph-Benoît Suvée
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- Name
- Joseph-Benoît Suvée
- Born
- 3 January 1743
- Birthplace
- Bruges, Austrian Netherlands
- Died
- 9 February 1807
- Place of death
- Rome, Papal States
- Known for
- Painting
- Training
- Pupil of Matthias de Visch and Jean-Jacques Bachelier
- Movement
- Neo-classicism
- Awards
- Prix de Rome (1771)
- Nationality
- Austrian Netherlands · France
- Occupation
- painter · draftsperson
- Fields
- history
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Biography
Biography
Joseph-Benoît Suvée studied at Academy of Fine Arts Bruges. Augustin van den Berghe, Cornelis Cels and Jean-Bernard Duvivier are recorded as having studied under Joseph-Benoît Suvée. the recorded working language is French and Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Jacques-Louis David is recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bruges, Paris and Rome. Positions recorded include director. Works named in the authority record are Academic life drawing study: seated male nude. Work by Joseph-Benoît Suvée is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) and Groeningemuseum. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Joseph-Benoît Suvée was born in Bruges, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names. For the place of death of Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Rome is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Roma by the Getty Union List of Artist Names and Rom by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Joseph-Benoît Suvée • Born — 3 January 1743 • Birthplace — Bruges, Austrian Netherlands • Died — 9 February 1807 • Place of death — Rome, Papal States • Known for — Painting • Training — Pupil of Matthias de Visch and Jean-Jacques Bachelier • Movement — Neo-classicism • Notable Works — Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (1795) • Awards — Prix de Rome (1771)
Documentary record
Joseph-Benoît Suvée appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names as a decorative painter, draughtsman, printmaker and portrait painter (3 January 1743 – 9 February 1807). The birth of Joseph-Benoît Suvée is recorded on 3 January 1743, and the death on 9 February 1807.
Biography
Biography
Suvée was born in Bruges. Initially a pupil of Matthias de Visch, he came to France aged 19 and became a pupil of Jean-Jacques Bachelier. In 1771, he won the Prix de Rome. In Rome from 1772 to 1778, he prolonged the usual duration allowed to pensionaries of the French Academy in Rome. He was named an academician on his return to Paris and he opened an art school for young women at the Louvre. One of his students was Constance Mayer. He emulated and competed with Jacques-Louis David, earning his enduring hatred. Named the French Academy in Rome's director in 1792, replacing François-Guillaume Ménageot, he was imprisoned for a while in the Prison Saint-Lazare and only able to take up the post in 1801. After a brilliant career, and a six years' stay in Rome as the Academy's Director, he died there suddenly. His works include Achilles depositing the body of Hector at the feet of the body of Patroclus, (1769, Louvre), and Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, (1795, Louvre). His pupils were Jean-Baptiste Joseph Autrique (1777–1853), Augustin van den Berghe, Marie Bouliard, Cornelis Cels, Césarine Henriette Flore Davin, Joseph-François Ducq, Jean-Bernard Duvivier, Guillielmus Petrus Geysen (1761–1827), Albert Gregorius, Jean-François Legillon, Constance Mayer, Jozef Karel De Meulemeester (1774–1836), Joseph Denis Odevaere, Gertrude de Pélichy, Pierre Joseph Petit (1768–1825), Ange René Ravault (1766–1845), Jacques-Albert Senave, Charles Spruyt (1769–1851), Philip van der Wal (1774–?), and François Wynckelman. Anna Barbara Bansi, with whom he is said to have had an affair, was another pupil.
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Feu M. r Joseph-Benoît, Joseph Benoît Suvée, Feu. R Suvée, Suvé de Bruges and Jos. His recorded languages were French and Dutch. He married Charlotte-Louise Suvée. Other recorded relations include Jean Rameau.
Career and activity
Career and activity
His work is associated with Neoclassicism. Recorded position is director. He belonged to Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. He worked at Bruges, Paris and Rome.
Documentary record
Place of activity recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Paris.
Work and production
Work and production
One work is recorded as notable: Academic life drawing study: seated male nude. His recorded genre is history.
Identity
Identity
Joseph-Benoît Suvée is recorded with the occupation draftsperson. Classed in the genre history painting.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1743
Joseph-Benoît Suvée was born on 3 January 1743.
1789
L'Archange Raphaël disparaissant parmi la famille de Tobie by Joseph-Benoît Suvée is dated 1789.
1807
Joseph-Benoît Suvée died on 9 February 1807.
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Bruges.
Birth place
Rome.
Death place
Activity and practice
What Joseph-Benoît Suvée did, and where. Suvée worked at Bruges. Suvée worked at Paris. Suvée worked at Rome. Recorded as having studied at Academy of Fine Arts Bruges.
Selected paintings
• Illustration — Admiral Coligny Confronts His Assassins, 1787 • Illustration — The Predication of Saint Paul • Illustration — Milo of Croton • Illustration — Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi • Illustration — Erminia and the Shepherds
Recognition and collections
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Recognition and collections
Joseph-Benoît Suvée received Prix de Rome and Knight of the Legion of Honour. Paul Getty Museum, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille and Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK).
Context
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Context
Joseph-Benoît Suvée is associated with Neoclassicism.
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- 1.Bruges, registre des baptêmes de Saint-Sauveur, Januarius 1743. 3â natus et 4â bapt est Josephus Benedictus fus Henrici Martini Suvée et Maria Jacoba De Vrient Conj. Susc : Josephus Franciscus Lammeire et Joanna Jacoba De Later.
- 2.Bruges, registre de mariage de Saint-Sauveur, 2e portion, 18 (Januario 1725) juncti sunt mat(rimo)nio henricus martinus Suvee et maria jacoba de vriendt test : francisco suvee et henrico de vriendt.
- 3.Voyez sous le lien https://pba.lille.fr/Collections/Chefs-d-OEuvre/Peintures-XVI-sup-e-sup-XXI-sup-e-sup-siecles/Le-Combat-de-Minerve-et-de-Mars.
- 4.Le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille conserve également l’esquisse de Jacques-Louis David pour le tableau du même sujet qu’il présente cette même année 1771 devant le jury.
- 5.Henri Herluison, Actes d'état-civil d'artistes français, Orléans, 1873, p. 420. Paris, paroisse Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois juin 1780. Du lundy 12e juin 1780. Joseph-Benoist Suvée, membre de l'Académie royale de peinture, âgé de 37 ans passés, fils des deff. Henry-Martin Suvée, et Marie-Jacob de Brendt (sic pour De Vriendt), d'une part ; et Charlotte-Louise Rameau, âgée de 34 ans passés, fille de Jean Rameau, md orfèvre, et de deff. Louise-Anne Canu, d'autre part, tous deux de cette psse, ont été fiancés et mariés, en présence de Jean- Jacques Bachelier, peintre du Roy et directeur général de l'École gratuite de dessin, rue de Bourbon, psse St- Sulpice ; de Nicolas-Jean Vatel, controlleur de la maison du Roy, rue de Bourbon , psse St-Eustache, tous deux amis du marié ; de Robert Joseph Auguste, orfèvre du Roy, au Carrousel, de cette psse, ami de la mariée ....
- 6.Jean Rameau est aussi qualifié de sculpteur quelques années auparavant : Le 8 mars 1761, à Paris, à l'Église Saint-André-des-Arts, Charlotte Louise fut la marraine de Pierre Louis Joseph Pesez, fils du graveur Henri Joseph Pesez, et elle est qualifiée dans cet acte de baptême de fille mineure de Jean Rameau, sculpteur.
- 7.Voyez le lien https://www.museabrugge.be/collection/work/id/0000_gro0136_i.
- 8.Henri Herluison, Actes d'état-civil d'artistes français, Orléans, 1873, Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois :Le jeudy 22° février 1781. Charlotte-Louise, fille de Joseph Benoist Suvée, peintre du Roy et de l'Académie royale de peinture, et de Charlotte - Louise Rameau, née et décédée d'avant - hier, au Carouzel, a été inhumée au cimetière de St-Nicolas-des-Champs.
- 9.Voyez Séverine Sofio, Artistes femmes, La parenthèse enchantée, , CNRS éditions, Paris, 2016.
- 10.Frédéric Chappey, Les Professeurs de l'École des Beaux-Arts (1794-1873), dans: Romantisme, 1996. . .
- 11.La réaction de Jacques-Louis David à cette nomination fut : Qui nommèrent-ils? Qui? Devinez… Suvée, l’horrible aristocrate Suvée, l’ignare Suvée.
- 12.Année 1832, bureau 5, cote / source 1049/6075, Rameau Charlotte Louise, veuve, adresse Pavée Saint André des Arts, date de décès 1832-07-00
- 13.Dominique Marechal, Les peintres "belges" dans les ateliers parisiens, de la fin du au début du , dans Marie-Claude Chaudonneret (réd.), Les artistes étrangers à Paris, Bern 2007, p. 153 et 154 pour les élèves de Suvée, et également le lien https://web.archive.org/web/20140622150906/http://explore.rkd.nl/explore/artists/76129
- 14.Dominique Marechal, dans son Avant-propos de Joseph-Benoît Suvée (1743-1807), Un artiste entre Bruges, Rome et Paris (voir la bibliographie).
- 15.Sous la direction d’Emmanuelle Brugerolles, de l’alcôve aux barricades de Fragonard à David, Beaux-Arts de Paris les éditions, 2016, p.68-69, Cat. 19
- 16.Vue intérieure du Colisée, Joseph-Benoît Suvée, sur Cat'zArts.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Joseph-Benoît Suvée (1743-1807), Un artiste entre Bruges, Rome et Paris. 440 pages, près de 400 illustrations. Le catalogue complet de l’artiste (554 notices d’œuvres), préface par Denis Coekelberghs, historien de l’art, avant-propos par Dominique Marechal, conservateur aux Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, aux éditions Arthena, 2017, .
- Dominique Marechal, Les peintres "belges" dans les ateliers parisiens, de la fin du au début du , dans : Marie-Claude Chaudonneret (réd.), Les artistes étrangers à Paris, Bern 2007, p. 137-156.
- Sandra Janssens et Paul Knolle (réd.), Joseph-Benoît Suvée et le néoclassicisme, catalogue de l'exposition, Brugge, Groeningmuseum, 2007-2008 et Twenthe, Rijksmuseum, 2008.
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Joseph-Benoît Suvée studied at Academy of Fine Arts Bruges. His recorded influences include Jacques-Louis David. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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