Antoine Ansiaux Explained

Jean Joseph Eleonora Antoine Ansiaux
Birth Date:1764
Birth Place:Liège, Belgium
Death Date:1840
Death Place:Paris, France

Jean Joseph Eleonora Antoine Ansiaux (1764–1840) was an Austrian Netherlands-born historical and portrait painter who worked in France.

Life

Ansiaux, a pupil of François-André Vincent, was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1764.

His elder brother, Emmanuel Antoine Joseph Ansiaux (1761-1800), worked in politics and law, a pathway the younger Ansiaux was to have taken before turning to art.[1] [2] [3]

His works, taken from sacred and profane history, and poetical subjects, are numerous, and place him among the best artists of the French school in the 19th century. He also painted portraits of several distinguished persons, ministers, and generals of Napoleon I.

He was known for working in the Romantic-inspired Troubadour style of French historical painting. The Grove Dictionary of Art criticized his works done in this style, calling them "very uneven" and "often laborious."[4]

Death

Ansiaux died in Paris in 1840.

Works

His works include:

Raising of the Cross, 1827.

Resurrection

Richelieu presenting Poussin to Louis XIII, 1817.

Adoration of the Kings.

Ascension, 1812 and Conversion of St. Paul, 1814.

St. John rebuking Herod, 1822 and finding of Moses, 1822.

The Flagellation.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Forgotten French Art from the First to the Second Empire: Autumn Exhibition, Nov. 23-Dec. 22, 1978. 1978. Heim Gallery.
  2. Book: Joseph Thomas. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology: Aa to Her. 1901. J.B. Lippincott. 143–.
  3. Book: Institut archéologique liégeois. Bulletin de l'institut archeologique liegeois. 1888. Institut archélogique liégeois. 231–.
  4. Book: Jane Turner. The Grove Dictionary of Art: From Renaissance to Impressionism: Styles and Movements in Western Art 1400-1900. 2000. St. Martin's Press. 978-0-312-22975-7. 355–.