Nicolas-Andre Monsiau

Nicolas-Andre Monsiau , born in 1754 with Paris where he died the May 31st 1837, is a painter of history, Dessin ator and illustrator French. Its style “ poussinist ” and the color of its fabrics marks a preserving art at the time of the Néo-classicisme.

Biography

It was formed with the royal Académie of painting and sculpture of Paris, under the direction of Peyron. Its first guard, the marquis de Corberon, financed his stay in Rome, where he studied in 1776 with the Académie from France to Rome. In its return to Paris, it could not take part in the Salon, which was reserved, under the Ancien Mode, with those which were approved by the Académie or which was members. It exposed, in 1782, with the Salon of the correspondence a caravagesque Pricking light effect of a lamp.

It was approved with the Academy with a historical subject, Alexandre overcoming Bucéphale the October 3rd 1787 and was accepted the October 3rd 1789 with the Death of Agis . The influence of Jacques-Louis David, is clearly visible in its Ulysses of return in his palate, after having killed the lovers of Pénélope (Living room of 1791), where the subject is detached on a bottom in plank consisted columns parallel with the plan from the table.

In one of its most known works, Zeuxis choosing of the models , exposed to the Living room of 1791, Monsiau illustrates an anecdote on the painter Zeuxis, reported in the Natural history of Pline.

The most important official ordering of Monsiau was the commemoration of the granting of the constitution of the République cisalpine, the January 26th 1802, at the time of Consults Republic cisalpine joined together in comices in Lyon to decree the presidency with the First Consul. The baron Gerard had declined this order, preferring to continue his portraits of the Bonaparte family. Monsiau accepted the order in 1806, the fabric was exposed to the Living room of 1808 and was installed with the Tuileries the following year.

It was one of the first painters of stories to represent scenes of modern history which were not commemorations of battles. It represented Molière reading the Sanctimonious hypocrite at Ninon de Lenclos exposed to the Living room of 1802, engraved by Jean-Lous Anselin. Its painting of Louis XVI giving his instructions to the captain Perugia for its voyage of exploration around the world was presented to the living room of 1817 and was bought by Louis XVIII.

the Lion of Florence (Museum of Louvre) evokes a sensational fact various: an escaped lion of the menagerie of the Grand-Duchy of Florence had slackened, without him to make of evil, a child whom it had taken in his hooks under the eyes of his mother. This table exposed to the living room of 1801 would have impressed the professor Jean Itard who had a reproduction in his apartment of it. Monsiau had Louis Letronne (1790-1842) and Pierre Bouillon (1776-1831) for pupils.

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