Festivity

Jean-Pierre Norblin

Basic information

ID: Ж-351
Author: Jean-Pierre Norblin
Name: Festivity
Date of creation: 18th c.
Country: France
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 31.8 x 28.7

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: genre art
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery
Exposition: Potocki Palace

Information about author

Author: Jean-Pierre Norblin
Artist's lifetime: 1745–1830
Country: France
Biography: Jean-Pierre Norblin was an outstanding French graphic artist and painter who brought the French Rococo style to the art of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was born in 1740 in Misy-sur-Yonne. Rembrandt and Antoine Watteau strongly influenced his artistic style. Jean-Pierre Norblin studied in Paris under several famous masters, including the Italian Francesco Casanova, Louis-Michel van Loo, and Joseph-Marie Vien. In 1772, Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski invited the artist to work at his residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Later, in 1790, Jean-Pierre Norblin moved to Warsaw and established his private school, where a new generation of Polish artists was educated. The master spent 14 years in the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before returning to Paris.

Object description

In this work, Jean-Pierre Norblin depicted a landscape with a "gallant" scene in an almost sketchy manner. A crowd of aristocrats having fun and relaxing is presented in the foreground. The artist schematically outlined the general contours of the figures so that the viewer could obtain a sense of the overall composition. The figures become more visually specific in some places of the work. For example, a man in a yellow jacket and red cape, a lady in a puffy dress, and three women having fun. The outline of a building can be seen in the background on the left.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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