Jacques Vigouroux Duplessis, also Jacques Vigoureux-Duplessis (c.1680–1732) was a French painter. He was active from 1699 to 1730, and is mainly known for his Rococo Chinoiserie or Orientalist paintings,[1] and decorative objects and scenes.[2]
He painted scenery for the Paris Opera (then the Académie Royale de Musique) around the turn of the eighteenth century.[3] In 1710, he lived with his wife Marie Prévost on Rue Fromenteau.[4] His painting of the set of the tragic opera Atys survives, and print editions of operas Alceste (1708) and Armide (1710) included engravings based on his sets.[5]
He moved to Brussels by 1715, where he registered as a master in the painters' guild. [6] By 1719 he had returned to France, and began designing tapestries at the Royal Tapestry Manufacture in Beauvais. He was appointed “peintre et dessinateur de la Manufacture” in 1721, a position responsible for training artists, creating six designs annually, and restoring tapestries and cartoons. He held the post until 1726, when the new director Noël-Antoine de Mérou replaced him with Jean-Baptiste Oudry as chief painter.[6][7]
Surviving work by Vigouroux-Duplessis includes mainly decorative works such as folding and fire screens. The last known work signed by Duplessis was a tripartite screen dated 1730, once in the possession of art dealer Jacques Helft.[4]
Gallery
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A Chinese Emperor With his Concubines Inspecting his Fantasy Fishing Fleet
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Chinoiserie. The Walters Art Museum.
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Chinoiserie Figures Surrounding a Painting Depicting a Satyr Threatening Diana and Her Nymphs
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Le Palais du Temps Décor pour le prologue d'Atys, tragédie lyrique de Lully
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Déchargement d'un navire turc dans la tempête
Notes
edit- ^ "Home". guirochat.addr.com.
- ^ "The National Inventory of Continental Europe Paintings". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
- ^ The Walters Art Museum. "Painted Fire Screen". The Walters Art Museum. Retrieved September 12, 2024.
- ^ a b Eidelberg, Martin (1977). "A Chinoiserie by Jacques Vigouroux Duplessis". The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery. 35: 62–76. ISSN 0083-7156. JSTOR 20168933.
- ^ Cawelti, Andrea (2014). "It's Good to Be the King: Head-Pieces in Ballard Folio Scores" (PDF). The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy. 84 (2): 209–218. doi:10.1086/675333. ISSN 0024-2519.
- ^ a b Brosens, Koenraad (2008). European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago (ebook ed.). Art Institute of Chicago. pp. 237–326. ISBN 9780300273823.
- ^ "The National Inventory of Continental Europe Paintings". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
