Jean-Gaspard Heilmann
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1718
Jean-Gaspard Heilmann | |
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.jpg) Autoportrait en costume d'apparat | |
| Born | Jean-Gaspard Heilmann 1718 |
| Died | 27 September 1760 (aged 41–42) |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Known for | First painter of king Louis XV |
Jean-Gaspard Heilmann (c. 1718 – 27 September 1760) was an 18th-century French painter, author of popular landscapes, historical scenes and fine portraits.[1] He was the first Mulhouse painter who enjoyed a certain notoriety in Paris.[2]
Born in Mulhouse, then part of Switzerland, from a Mulhouse family documented since the 16th century,[3] an orphan at a very young age, he was formed in Schaffhausen by the painter Hans Deggeller, then at Basel (Switzerland).
Noticed by the cardinal of Tencin,[4] he followed him to Rome and executed many commissions for him. The French Ambassador to Rome took him to Paris in 1742.[5] Heilmann lived there until his death and connected with the engraver Jean-Georges Wille and François Boucher, first painter of king Louis XV.
He died in Paris in 1760 at the age of 42.
Selected works
- Portrait de femme (oil), 1748, Musée Magnin in Dijon
- Portrait d'homme et son pendant Portrait de femme (1749), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
- Sous-bois (drawing), Musée Bonnat in Bayonne
- Autoportrait en costume d'atelier (oil), Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
- Autoportrait en costume d'apparat (oil), c. 1750, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
- Deux natures mortes, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
