Joseph Vivien

He was received in the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1701, under the designation peintre en pastel. His morceaux de reception, pastel portraits of the sculptor François Girardon and the architect Robert de Cotte, are in the Louvre Museum. He was appointed counsellor to the Academy and provided with lodging under royal auspices at the Gobelins Manufactory. From Paris he visited Brussels. Vivien was taken up by the francophile Elector of Cologne and worked in Munich as first painter to the Elector's brother, Maximilian Emmanuel, Elector of Bavaria. At the time of his death in Bonn, he was engaged on a vast canvas combining portraits of the whole family of the Elector, in oils.

Joseph Vivien studied at Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Training under Charles Le Brun and François Bonnemer is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Positions recorded include court painter. Works named in the authority record are Portrait of Maximilian II, Elector of Bavaria, at the Battle of Mohács against the Turks. Work by Joseph Vivien is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Minneapolis Institute of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Victoria and Nationalmuseum. Distinctions recorded are resident at the Villa Medici and Second Great Prize of Rome.

• Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria • Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria • Robert de Cotte, 1701