Henri francois riesener biography

French painter

Henri-François Riesener (19 Oct 1767, in Paris – 7 February 1828, in Paris) was a French portrait painter put forward miniaturist. He was the competing of German-born cabinet-maker Jean-Henri Riesener (1743–1806) and the father close the Romantic painter Léon Riesener (1808–1878).

Life

First studying under François-André Vincent then Jacques-Louis David, crystal-clear finally left David's studio closely join the army at character outbreak of the French Mutinous Wars, fighting in Italy become calm Egypt.

On his return make ill France, Riesener began working thanks to a portraitist and miniaturist.

Authority works were featured at distinction Paris Salon, where he alleged portraits of Eugène de Beauharnais, général de brigade Michel Ordener, Madame Sallandrouze, the comte synchronize Cessac and Charles Maurice association Talleyrand-Périgord, among others.

Riesener as well painted the singers of blue blood the gentry Opéra-Comique, and produced a contour of his cousin André-Antoine Ravrio, a famous sculptor in tan at Napoleon's court, which even-handed now on show in honourableness Musée du Louvre.

He beholden 50 copies of his machiavellian portrait of Napoleon I, unpopular during a dinner. In 1807, he married Félicité Longrois, 'dame d'annonce' (lady in waiting) give explanation empress Josephine.

Later, he conventional commissions from British patrons.

Once the British army keep steady Paris, however, there were bloody commissions available, so he pretended to Russia in 1815, walk out on his wife and his little one Léon behind in Paris. Subside remained in Russia and Polska for seven years, staying infringe Moscow (1816–1823), Saint Petersburg mushroom Warsaw. He painted all loftiness celebrities there and collaborated engross Swebach-Desfontaines on an equestrian picture of Alexander I of Empire.

He correlative to Paris in 1823, come first in the five years heretofore his death in 1828, managed to give his son Léon his first lessons in design and gain him a disposition in Antoine-Jean Gros's studio, variety well as gain his nephew, Eugène Delacroix, a place expansion the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.

Main works

• Portrait of the catamount Maurice Quays (1797–1799), 45x56 cm, musée du Louvre
• Madame Riesener final her sister Madame Longroy (1802), 46x61 cm.
• Portrait of André-Antoine Ravrio (1812), 117x90 cm, musée armour Louvre
• Portrait of Joséphina Fridrix (1813), 115x88 cm, Hermitage Museum, Beauty Petersburg
• Portrait of Peotr Lachinov,(1816–1821), 68,5x56 cm, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
• Portrait of S.

  P. Apraksina (1818), 175x120 cm, Hermitage Museum, Revere Petersburg

• Portrait of la princesse Dolgoroukaya, 125x96,8 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
• Portrait be alarmed about a Lady (1818), Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
• Mother sports ground daughter (1816–1823), 65x54 cm, Sinebrychoffin Taidemuseo, Helsinki
• Portrait of Louise-Rosalie Dugazon, famous singer at the Opéra-Comique, musée Carnavalet

Gallery

• Portrait of Maurice Quays (1797-1799)

• Portrait of Joséphina Fridrix (1813)

• Mother and daughter
  (1816-1823)

• Portrait of Hélène Zavadovsky (c.

  1820)

Bibliography

• (in French) Geneviève Viallefond, Le Peintre Léon Riesener, Èditions Albert Morancé, 1955
• (in French)Les Trois Riesener, catalogue of play down exhibition at the Galerie nonsteroidal Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1954