Jacques Aved Explained

Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (12 January 1702  - 4 March 1766), also called le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), was a French painter of the 18th century and one of the main French Rococo portraitists. He painted among others the Ottoman Empire ambassador to France in 1742, Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Efendi.

His father was a physician and he was orphaned when he was a little boy. He was raised in Amsterdam by one of his uncles, who was a captain in the Dutch Army.^[1]

After his training in Amsterdam with François Boitard and Bernard Picart, Jacques Aved started working in Paris for Belle in 1721. He later entered at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture) in 1731 and he was appointed councillor after graduating in 1734 and in 1759, he took part in his last salon. In 1753 he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura.^[2]

As an art dealer and collector, he owned one of the most important collections with works by Italian, French and especially Dutch artists. This collection was sold at auction in 1766.

Carle Van Loo, François Boucher, Dumont le Romain and Chardin were some of his pupils.

Further reading

Primary source

• Book: Remy, Pierre . Catalogue raisonné de tableaux de différens bons maîtres des trois écoles… & autres effets qui composent le cabinet de M. Aved, Peintre du Roi & de son académie . Dibot l'aîne . 1766 . Paris . fr . 1041768008 . the Internet Archive.

General studies

• Book: Wildenstein, Georges. Georges Wildenstein. 1922. Le peintre Aved, sa vie et son oeuvre. catalogue raisonné. fr. Paris. Les Beaux-Arts. 797994545. Vol. 1 and 2 available via the Internet Archive.
• Wildenstein. Georges. 1935. Premier supplément à la biographie et au catalogue d'Aved. fr. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 6. 13 . 159–172. Gallica.

Additional studies

• Book: Göçek, Fatma Müge. East Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century. registration. Oxford, New York. Oxford University Press. 1987. 70, 80. 0-19-504826-1. 86023727. 1110703702. the Internet Archive.
• Book: Kalnein. Wend Graf.

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  . Levey. Michael. Michael Levey. Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in France. Penguin Books. 1972. 14-056037-8. Harmondsworth. 1008263215.
• Book: Rosenberg, Pierre. Pierre Rosenberg. 1979. Chardin, 1699–1779. registration. exposition catalogue. Paris; Cleveland, OH. Édition de la Réunion des musées nationales; Cleveland Museum of Arts. 0-910-386-48-X. 1148189380. the Internet Archive.

Reference works

• Book: Bénézit, Emmanuel. 2006. originally published in French in 1911. Emmanuel Bénézit. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 1. Paris. Gründ. 865–866. 2-7000-3070-2. the Internet Archive.
• Encyclopedia: Lespes. Michelle. 1996. Turner. Jane. Aved, Jacques(-André-Joseph). The Dictionary of Art. 2. New York. Grove's Dictionaries. 851–852. 1-884446-00-0. 1033657161. the Internet Archive.
• Encyclopedia: Moes. Ernst Wilhelm. Ernst Wilhelm Moes. 1908. Thieme. Ulrich. Ulrich Thieme. Becker. Felix. Felix Becker (art historian). Aved, Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler. de. 2. Leipzig. W. Engelmann. 271–272. 1039508956. the Internet Archive.
• Encyclopedia: Prevost. Michel. 1948. Aved (Jacques-André-Joseph). Prevost. Michel. Roman d'Amat. Jean-Charles. Dictionnaire de biographie française. fr. 4. Paris. Letouzey et Ané. cols. 841–842. 922284766.
• Encyclopedia: Urra Muena. Želmíra. Kasten. Eberhard. etal. 1992. Aved, Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot (Jacques), gen. (Aved) le Batave. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. de. 5. München, Leipzig. Saur. 717–718. 3-598-22745-0. 311641678.

Notes and References

1. Page 15 (40)- Galerie Douaisienne ou Biographie de la Ville de Douai par H. Duthillœul -imprimé par Adam Aubers à Douai en 1884 -archivé à la Bibliotheca Bodletana numérisé par Google Books
2. https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/3053 Jacques André Joseph Camellot Aved