Wild Piat

See also: Piat (homonymy)

Piat Joseph Sauvage (Turned January 19th 1744 - June 11th 1818) is a Belgian painter .

His/her father, Antoine Sauvage, were glazier. Piat works in the family company until the seventeen years age, while receiving a technical training at the Art school. It then will improve with the Academy of Antwerp its artistic education under the direction of the painter of history and Grisaille S Martin-Joseph Geeraerts. He works a time with the Course the Netherlands of Austria to Brussels then he is made receive with the Academy of Saint-Luc of Paris. Its participation in the exposure organized in 1774 by this artistic grouping includes/understands nine works among which the death of Germanicus , low-relief in greyness.

Savage was then accepted as member of the royal Academy of Paris after the production of a table representing a Table covered with an embroidered carpet on which are posed: a statuette of child, a helmet, a shield, books, a violin, a vase of bronze, a celestial sphere, paper and a white scarf . This fabric is with the Palate of Fontainebleau which also has this artist several tops of door.

The reputation which it was acquired makes it possible him to be appointed first painter of Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, then of the king Louis XVI. In this quality, it paints admirable a Portrait of Marie-Antoinette , medallions of the royal family of France, famous portraits of men. It carries out the ceiling of the vault of the Château of Saint-Cloud and decorates the Théatre with Chantilly (shaven under the Revolution).

The situation which the artist occupies at the Court does not prevent it adhering to the Révolution and from becoming chief of a battalion of the Parisian national guard. The political upheavals do not slow down it its artistic activity.

From 1804 to 1807, he exerts his art as painter of figures on porcelain to famous the manufacture of Sevres.

In 1808, it turns over to Tournai to take the direction of the Art school continuations to the pressing steps of the mayor (name of the Bourgmestre during the French occupation) Charles Henri Joseph de Rasse. Until 1817, it successfully reorganized the Academy and number of painter of reputation, like Antoine Payen, accepted courses of the painter there. Piat Sauvage painted for the chorus of the cathedral of Turned, the Seven Sacraments , according to Poussin. Its low-reliefs, in life size, were to replace there the superb tapestries carried by the local Jacobins French and their collaborationists.

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