Joseph-Marie Vien was a French painter, winner of the Prix de Rome. He was in Rome at a time (1743-50) that coincided with excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii, and in his lifetime he gained a great reputation (partly self-promoted) as a pioneer of the Neoclassical style. He was enthusiastic for the ideas of Winckelmann, but his classicism was of a very superficial kind, consisting of prim and sentimentalized anecdote or allegory with pseudo-antique trappings (The Cupid Seller, Château de Fontainebleau, 1763). Nevertheless, he gauged the taste of the time well and had a career of exemplary success, becoming director of the French Academy in Rome (1776) and First Painter to the King (1789). He was made a senator by Napoleon after the Revolution, a count in 1808, and was buried in the Pantheon. David was his most important pupil. His son, Joseph-Marie the Younger (1762-1848), was also a painter, mainly of portraits.
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Vien, Joseph-Marie
La Marchande d'Amours
Date: 1763 Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Allegory Technique: Oil on canvas
Vien, Joseph-Marie
The Sultana
Date: 1748 Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Portrait Technique: Other/Unknown
Vien, Joseph-Marie
Lover Crowning his Mistress
Date: 1773 Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Allegory Technique: Oil on canvas
Vien, Joseph-Marie
Venus Showing Mars her Doves Making a Nest in his Helmet
Date: 1768 Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Mythology Technique: Oil on canvas
Vien, Joseph-Marie
Susanna and the Elders
Date: 1th quarter of the XIX. century Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Old Testament Technique: Other/Unknown
Vien, Joseph-Marie
St Denis Preaching in Gaul
Date: 1767 Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Saints Technique: Oil on canvas
Vien, Joseph-Marie
Psyche Surprises the Sleeping Cupid
Date: 3th quarter of the XVIII. century Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Mythology Technique: Other/Unknown
Vien, Joseph-Marie
The Sleeping Hermit
Date: 1750 Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Allegory Technique: Oil on canvas
Vien, Joseph-Marie
Marcus Aurelius Distributing Bread to the People
Date: 1765 Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: History Technique: Oil on canvas
Vien, Joseph-Marie
La Marquise de Migieu
Date: 3th quarter of the 18 century Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Portrait Technique: Other/Unknown
Vien, Joseph-Marie
The Triumph of the Republic
Date: 1794 Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Allegory Technique: Mixed technique
Vien, Joseph-Marie
The Farewell of Hector and Andromache
Date: 1786 Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Mythology Technique: Oil on canvas
Vien, Joseph-Marie
Daedalus Attach the Wings to Icarus in the Labyrinth
Date: 1754 Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Mythology Technique: Oil on canvas
Vien, Joseph-Marie
The Sultan
Date: 1748 Movement: Neoclassicism Theme: Portrait Technique: Other/Unknown