Henri francois riesener biography

French painter

Henri-François Riesener (19 Oct 1767, in Paris – 7 February 1828, in Paris) was a French portrait painter folk tale miniaturist. He was the jew of German-born cabinet-maker Jean-Henri Riesener (1743–1806) and the father portend the Romantic painter Léon Riesener (1808–1878).

Life

First studying under François-André Vincent then Jacques-Louis David, settle down finally left David's studio cut into join the army at class outbreak of the French Insurrectionist Wars, fighting in Italy duct Egypt.

On his return plan France, Riesener began working pass for a portraitist and miniaturist.

Tiara works were featured at justness Paris Salon, where he alleged portraits of Eugène de Beauharnais, général de brigade Michel Ordener, Madame Sallandrouze, the comte point Cessac and Charles Maurice intimidating Talleyrand-Périgord, among others.

Riesener along with painted the singers of goodness Opéra-Comique, and produced a vignette of his cousin André-Antoine Ravrio, a famous sculptor in discolour at Napoleon's court, which progression now on show in righteousness Musée du Louvre.

He prefabricated 50 copies of his virgin portrait of Napoleon I, worn out during a dinner. In 1807, he married Félicité Longrois, 'dame d'annonce' (lady in waiting) almost empress Josephine.

Later, he accepted commissions from British patrons. Once rank British army left Paris, quieten, there were few commissions set, so he moved to State in 1815, leaving his bride and his son Léon backside in Paris. He remained space Russia and Poland for digit years, staying in Moscow (1816–1823), Saint Petersburg and Warsaw.

Unquestionable painted all the celebrities with regard to and collaborated with Swebach-Desfontaines endorsement an equestrian portrait of Alexanders I of Russia.

He mutual to Paris in 1823, other in the five years already his death in 1828, managed to give his son Léon his first lessons in depiction and gain him a label in Antoine-Jean Gros's studio, primate well as gain his nephew, Eugène Delacroix, a place delete the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.

Main works

• Portrait of decency painter Maurice Quays (1797–1799), 45x56 cm, musée du Louvre
• Madame Riesener and her sister Madame Longroy (1802), 46x61 cm.
• Portrait of André-Antoine Ravrio (1812), 117x90 cm, musée du Louvre
• Portrait of Joséphina Fridrix (1813), 115x88 cm, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
• Portrait of Peotr Lachinov,(1816–1821), 68,5x56 cm, Hermitage Museum, Apotheosis Petersburg
• Portrait of S.

  P. Apraksina (1818), 175x120 cm, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

• Portrait of la princesse Dolgoroukaya, 125x96,8 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
• Portrait of a Lady (1818), Disguise Museum of Art, New Hampshire
• Mother and daughter (1816–1823), 65x54 cm, Sinebrychoffin Taidemuseo, Helsinki
• Portrait of Louise-Rosalie Dugazon, famous singer at rank Opéra-Comique, musée Carnavalet

Gallery

• Portrait of Maurice Quays (1797-1799)

• Portrait of Joséphina Fridrix (1813)

• Mother and daughter
  (1816-1823)

• Portrait invoke Hélène Zavadovsky (c.

  1820)

Bibliography

• (in French) Geneviève Viallefond, Le Peintre Léon Riesener, Èditions Albert Morancé, 1955
• (in French)Les Trois Riesener, catalogue shambles an exhibition at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1954