Jules Romain JOYANT (1803–1854) - Lot 306

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Jules Romain JOYANT (1803–1854) - Lot 306
Jules Romain JOYANT (1803–1854) Venice, the Lively Grand Canal Oil on canvas 76 x 114 cm Provenance: Louis-François Senlecq Museum of Art and History in L'Isle-Adam (Val d'Oise), April–September 2003, no. 66, reproduced on p. 182. Jules-Romain Joyant, a brilliant Romantic vedutist of the mid-19th century. He was a student of Bidauld, Lethière, and the architect Huyot. He was noticed very early on by the art critics of the time, starting with his first Salon of Painting and Sculpture in 1835. He was likely one of the first French Romantic painters to practice, on Bonington’s advice, the watercolor technique, which had until then been typically English. Bonington also recommended that he go to Italy to draw and paint, where he traveled as early as 1829. He discovered a true passion for the country and spent much of his life traveling between Rome, Florence, Bologna, and especially Venice. As a landscape painter of urban architecture, he became a fervent admirer of his prestigious 18th-century Italian predecessors: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Canaletto, and Francesco Guardi. Like them, he knew how to harmonize the richness and softness of colors with impeccable draftsmanship, based on the use of curious optical devices, studied here for the first time. In 1974, the Louis-Senlecq Museum of Art and History received a donation of 141 drawings by François Barbier, grandson of Charles Joyant (1833–1892) and nephew of Maurice Joyant[2], and in 1980, the large painting of Campo Vaccino. This comprehensive collection, ranging from preparatory sketches to the most finished oil paintings, reveals the inner workings of the creative process of a great Romantic vedutist[3]. In 2003, a major exhibition was dedicated to him at this museum.
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