Rene-Antoine Wass ( French René-Antoine Houasse ; 1645 , Paris - 1710 , Paris ) - French artist of the Rococo era. Representative of the French art school of the era of Louis XIV . Member of the French Royal Academy of Fine Arts (since 1673).
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| fr. René-antoine houasse | |
 Portrait of Renee Antoine Wass Francois Jouvain | |
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| Citizenship |  France |
| Genre | painting |
| Style | classicism |
Biography
One of the most devoted students and staff of Charles Lebrun , under whose leadership he worked at the Tapestry Manufactory , from 1670 in the Tuileries and, especially, in Versailles , where he took part in the decoration of the Large Apartments - the Mars Salon and later, around 1680 - the Salon Venus.
Since 1688, he wrote for the Great Trianon a series of paintings on mythological subjects (The History of Minerva and others).
From 1699 to 1704 he was director of the French Academy in Rome .
Its neoclassical style is characterized by a subtle gray-blue color (Saint Stephen, 1675, Louvre , Paris).
The author of mythological and religious paintings depicting various myths with the participation of the Greco-Roman goddess Athena / Minerva .
Rene-Antoine Wass was married on February 5, 1673, to Marie Le Bleu, cousin of Charles Lebrun . They had two children:
- Agnes-Suzanne Wass (1674-1719), September 18, 1690, married Nicola Couste (1658-1733).
- Michel-Ange Wass (1680-1730), artist of genre scenes.
Renee Antoine Wasse died at the Gramont Hotel in Paris in 1710.
Favorite Paintings
- "Minerva and Arachne." 1706, Palace of Versailles
- "The dispute between Minerva and Neptune about the name of Athens." 1690, Palace of Versailles
- Mercury and Argus
- René-antoine houasse
Morpheus and Iris , (1688), The Great Trianon
The birth of Minerva from Zeus
Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV
Mercury and Argus
Abundance and Freedom. (1683)
Eulogy, the Greek goddess of eloquence.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 KulturNav - 2015.
- ↑ http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Names%C2%A0A-Z&person=19511
- ↑ Athenaeum
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 133944085 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ RKDartists