Etienne aubry artist biography

  • He was born in Versailles.
  • Étienne Aubry was a French painter.
  • French painter.

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    French painter. He trained under Jacques-Augustin Silvestre (1719-1809) and Joseph Marie Vien, exhibiting portraits at the Salon from 1771 and becoming a member of the Académie Royale as a portrait painter in 1775. His portraits of such eminent contemporaries as the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (Musée du Louvre, Paris) are characterized by a quiet, understated elegance.

    In 1775, ambitious to improve his status as an artist within the hierarchy of genres, he began to exhibit scenes of domestic life. Paternal Love (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham) is indebted to the paintings of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, but the sentimental subject is depicted with a compositional clarity and restrained naturalism that make Aubry the most original and appealing of Greuze's imitators. The Nurse's Farewell (The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown) departs from prototypes by Greuze in its representation of a fashionable urban family in a landscape setting. In the late 1770s Aubr

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    Etienne AUBRY

    Versailles 1745 - Versailles 1781

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    One of the most interesting and talented painters working in France in the latter half of the 18th century, Etienne Aubry began his artistic training with Jacques Augustin de Silvestre, maître a dessiner des enfants de France, and later studied with Joseph Marie Vien. In the early years of his career, Aubry worked almost exclusively as a portrait painter, and as such was agréé at the Academie Royale in 1771. He made his debut at the Salon the same year, exhibiting four portraits. His work as a portraitist gradually gave way to an interest in genre painting in the moralizing manner of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, resulting in such works as the Paternal Love in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. In fact, after exhibiting only portraits at the Salons of 1771 and 1773, in 1775 he submitted just one portrait, together with a number of genre scenes, and in 1777 and 1779 showed no portraits at all. Late in his career,

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    Étienne Aubry

    Image Year English title of work French title of work Current location Notes 1771Portrait of Louis-Claude VasséPortrait dem Louis-Claude VasséVersailles, France
    Palace of Versailles[2]1773Portrait of Madame VictoirePortrait de Madame VictoireVersailles, France
    Palace of Versailles1775Portrait of Noël HalléPortrait dem Noël HalléVersailles, France
    Palace of Versailles[3]17??Portrait of the actor François René Molé (1734-1807)Portrait dit de l'acteur François René Molé (1734-1807)Private collection, Paris, France1775Paternal LoveL'Amour paternelBirmingham, England
    Barber Institute of Fine Arts[1]1775The Shepherdess of the AlpsLa bergère des AlpesDetroit, Michigan
    Detroit Institute of Arts
    1776-1777 ca.Farewell to the Wet NurseLes adieux à la nourriceWilliamstown, Massachusetts
    Clark Art Institute[2]1777Portrait of