Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain
Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain (9 February 1754 – 11 November 1842) was a painter and art historian, inspired by the French enlightenment. He was born in Paris and studied under Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau. He left a very large number of historical and landscape pictures, miniatures and portraits.
Also recorded as Pierre Marie Gault De Saint-Germain · Pierre Marie Gault de St. Germain · Pierre Marie de Gault Saint-Germain · Pierre Marie Gault
Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain
Pierre Marie Gault De Saint-Germain · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene · CC0
- Born
- 1754 · Paris.
- Died
- 1842 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · artist · journalist · art educator · historian · art critic
- Fields
- portrait
- Teachers
- Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau
- Languages
- French
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Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain (9 February 1754 – 11 November 1842) was a painter and art historian, inspired by the French enlightenment. He was born in Paris and studied under Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau. He left a very large number of historical and landscape pictures, miniatures and portraits.
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Among his portraits are those of Voltaire, Mademoiselle Clairon, Crébillon, and Stanislaus, King of Poland. He wrote accounts of the lives and works of Leonardo da Vinci and Nicolas Poussin; a Guide des Amateurs de Tableaux pour les Ecoles allemande, flamande et hollandaise, 1818; and other works relative to painting, in which he displayed much knowledge and judgment. He was married to the Polish artist, Anna Rajecka. It is not known if they had any children. The Rue Gault de Saint-Germain in Clermont-Ferrand is named after him.
Training under Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau is recorded. Thomas Degeorge is recorded as having studied under Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris, Clermont-Ferrand and Guéret.
The authorities additionally record the headings Pierre Marie Gault De Saint-Germain, Pierre Marie Gault de St. Germain, Pierre Marie de Gault Saint-Germain, Pierre Marie Gault and Pierre Marie de Saint-Germain. His recorded language was French. He married Anna Rajecka.
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Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain is recorded as painter, artist, journalist, art educator and historian.
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1754
Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain born at Paris.
1842
Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain died at Paris.
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Une appropriation de l’image de Poussin sous le Consulat et l’Empire: Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain (1756-1842), Histoire de l'art, 2002
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- 1.Il a laissé des descriptions minutieuses des monuments et des paysages (voir : Tableau de la ci-devant province d’Auvergne, suivi d’un précis historique sur les révolutions qu’elle a éprouvées, par A. Rabany-Beauregard, avec l’explication des monumens et antiquités par P. M. Gault, Paris, Pernier, 1802). Il fera de même plus tard quand il sera dans la Creuse (voir : Lettres inédites sur la géographie, la physique, la topographie, l’histoire naturelle, les antiquités et les hommes illustres de la ci-devant province de Marche, écrites en 1809 et 1810, Clermont-Ferrand, Veysset, 1861).
- 2.Nouveau Larousse illustré - Dictionnaire universel encyclopédique, tome 4, p. 788.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Camilla Murgia, The Works of Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain (1752-1842) : Artistic models and criticism during the early nineteenth century in France, Oxford University, Department of Art History, 2008 (thèse de doctorat).
- Maurice Faucon, « Gault de Saint-Germain, notice des tableaux et monuments connus dans la ville de Clermont et aux environs, faite avant les destructions ordonnées par Couthon », Nouvelles Archives de l’art français, 1879, .
- Annie Regond, « Gault de Saint-Germain à Clermont pendant le Directoire », dans La République directoriale, Actes du colloque de Clermont-Ferrand, 22- (Bibliothèque d’histoire révolutionnaire, nouv. série, 3), Philippe Bourdin et Bernard Gainot éd., Paris, Société des études robespierristes, 1998, 2 vol.
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He trained under Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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