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Historical-scenes painter, b. 1763 - d. 1788

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    • Jean-Germain Drouais (French, 1763 - 1788), seated male nude, black chalk heightened in white, 44 x 57.5 cm, framed and glazed 64.5 x 78 cm
      Jun. 27, 2024

      Jean-Germain Drouais (French, 1763 - 1788), seated male nude, black chalk heightened in white, 44 x 57.5 cm, framed and glazed 64.5 x 78 cm

      Est: £800 - £1,500

      Jean-Germain Drouais (French, 1763 - 1788), seated male nude, black chalk heightened in white, 44 x 57.5 cm, framed and glazed 64.5 x 78 cm Purchased directly from Mathias Polakovits (1921 - 1987), from his Paris apartment circa 1981 - 3

      Dawsons Auctioneers
    • Jean Germain Drouais (1763-1788) French. A Classical Harbour Scene, with Boats, and Figures on the Quayside, Gouache, Signed, Oval, 3.5" x 5", and the companion piece, a Pair (2).
      May. 13, 2020

      Jean Germain Drouais (1763-1788) French. A Classical Harbour Scene, with Boats, and Figures on the Quayside, Gouache, Signed, Oval, 3.5" x 5", and the companion piece, a Pair (2).

      Est: £200 - £300

      Jean Germain Drouais (1763-1788) French. A Classical Harbour Scene, with Boats, and Figures on the Quayside, Gouache, Signed, Oval, 3.5" x 5", and the companion piece, a Pair (2).

      John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers
    • Attributed to Jean-Germain Drouais (Paris 1763-1788 Rome) An album with 116 drawings after or inspired by the Antique black chalk, brown wash 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 in. (16 x 10.3 cm)
      Jul. 02, 2019

      Attributed to Jean-Germain Drouais (Paris 1763-1788 Rome) An album with 116 drawings after or inspired by the Antique black chalk, brown wash 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 in. (16 x 10.3 cm)

      Est: £4,000 - £6,000

      Attributed to Jean-Germain Drouais (Paris 1763-1788 Rome) An album with 116 drawings after or inspired by the Antique with extensive inscriptions by the artist on the last four pages and the front cover interiors black chalk, brown wash 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 in. (16 x 10.3 cm)

      Christie's
    • JEAN-GERMAIN DROUAIS | Marius prisonnier a Minturnes
      Jun. 17, 2015

      JEAN-GERMAIN DROUAIS | Marius prisonnier a Minturnes

      Est: €12,000 - €15,000

      Huile sur toile et châssis d'origine

      Sotheby's
    • Attribué à Jean Germain DROUAIS (1763-1788) Philoctète à Lemnos, dans un encadrement peint Toile Canvas 28 x 21,5cm (11 IN
      Jun. 16, 2015

      Attribué à Jean Germain DROUAIS (1763-1788) Philoctète à Lemnos, dans un encadrement peint Toile Canvas 28 x 21,5cm (11 IN

      Est: €3,000 - €5,000

      Attribué à Jean Germain DROUAIS (1763-1788) Philoctète à Lemnos, dans un encadrement peint Toile Canvas 28 x 21,5cm (11 IN. X 8 7/16 IN.)

      Tajan
    • Jean-Germain Drouais (Paris 1763-1788 Rome)
      Jul. 03, 2012

      Jean-Germain Drouais (Paris 1763-1788 Rome)

      Est: £3,000 - £4,000

      Jean-Germain Drouais (Paris 1763-1788 Rome) Apollo and Neptune advising Laomedon, after Domenichino signed and dated 'Drouais Rome 1787' black chalk, brush and grey wash, watermark J. HONIG 11½ x 8¼ in. (29.2 x 21.2 cm.)

      Christie's
    • A seated male nude
      Apr. 15, 2008

      A seated male nude

      Est: $10,000 - $15,000

      Jean-Germain Drouais Paris 1763-1788 Rome A seated male nude signed 'g. Drouais' (lower left) oil on canvas 21 7/8 x 19½ in. 55.6 x 49.5 cm.

      Christie's
    • A seated male nude in contrapposto
      Apr. 15, 2008

      A seated male nude in contrapposto

      Est: $10,000 - $15,000

      Jean-Germain Drouais Paris 1763-1788 Rome A seated male nude in contrapposto oil on canvas 28 x 23 in 71.2 x 58.2 cm

      Christie's
    • Jean-Germain Drouais (Paris 1763-1788 Rome)
      Jan. 24, 2003

      Jean-Germain Drouais (Paris 1763-1788 Rome)

      Est: $20,000 - $30,000

      Study of a male nude oil on canvas 28 x 23 in. (71.2 x 58.2 cm.).

      Christie's
    • Jean-Germain Drouais (Paris 1763-1788 Rome)
      Jan. 24, 2003

      Jean-Germain Drouais (Paris 1763-1788 Rome)

      Est: $30,000 - $50,000

      Study of a male nude signed 'G. Drouais' (lower left) oil on canvas 221/2 x 20 in. (57 x 50.8 cm.) NOTES This and the following male academie are important rediscoveries by the rarest yet one of the most important French neoclassical painters. After brief apprenticeships with his father, the portrait painter Francois-Hubert Drouais and the history painter Nicolas-Guy Brenet, the young Jean-Germain decided in 1780 to work with Jacques-Louis David. After two failed attempts he won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1784 with Christ and the Woman of Canaan (Mus‚e du Louvre, Paris). Of this entry, a contemporary wrote, 'he astonished the entire Academy. Never had a student presented to the contest a work of such powerful conception and execution; and the most fervent wish was that such a prodigious talent could be sustained to the same degree of perfection. The enthusiasm that it generated was universal.' In the same year Drouais left for Italy with J-B Wicar and David. In Rome, Drouais enrolled in the French Academy, then under the direction of Louis Lagren‚e the Elder, and continued his studies with David, who was working on the Oath of the Horatii (Mus‚e du Louvre, Paris). As a later memoir from a contemporary recounts, Drouais assisted his master on this seminal picture, painting the arm of the third brother and the yellow garment of Sabina. David left Rome in 1785, but the two artists maintained a correspondence. Drouais remained in the Eternal City, where he painted his masterpiece, Marius at Minturnae (Mus‚e du Louvre, Paris), and Philocletes on Lemnos (Mus‚e des Beaux-Arts de Chartres). He died of smallpox in 1788, after a career that spanned a brief six years. Drouais's paintings are distinguished by superb draughtsmanship and a severity of style that led his work to be compared to that of Poussin. Had he lived longer he might have gone on to contest David's preeminence in Paris. As the master himself reflected on Drouais's untimely death, 'I have lost my emulation. He alone could trouble my sleep.' This and the following lot are exercises in the long-established academic practice of making painted studies of the posed male nude, as a means for history painters to perfect their craft. While these nudes were probably painted in Paris while Drouais was a student at the Royal Academy (obviously depicting a single model and surely made in quick succession), he subsequently painted two life-sized academies in Rome which, by dint of their large scale and intensity of expression, take on the quality of subject pictures: one, a Wounded Athlete (Mus‚e du Louvre, Paris) and the other a Seated Gladiator (Mus‚e des Beaux-Arts, Rouen). Like the present lots, both exploit the dramatic possibilities of strong, direct lighting and shallow but ambiguous space. The severity of profiles, the model's intense expressions, pronounced ankle bones, and the elongation of limbs are all characteristics of Drouais' handling of the human form, while the heavily scumbled technique -- especially pronounced in the backgrounds -- demonstrates his devotion to David's working methods.

      Christie's
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