Joseph-Marie Vien

(1716–1809) fransk målare

Joseph-Marie Vien (France, 1716–1809) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a designer. By year of birth, Joseph-Marie Vien belongs to the chapter ‘Rococo’ in this site’s history of art.

Joseph-Marie Vien was born in Montpellier and died in Paris. Joseph-Marie Vien trained at Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The teachers included Charles-Joseph Natoire and Giral. Joseph-Marie Vien became a member of Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include first Prix de Rome for painting, Commander of the Legion of Honour, and resident at the Villa Medici. The students included Jacques-Louis David, Louis-Ami Arlaud-Jurine, Jean-Jacques Forty, and Jean-Baptiste Regnault.

The best-known works include ‘Two Women Bathing’ and ‘The sweet melancholy’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 90 works by Joseph-Marie Vien with free images. The dated works span the years 1743–1789. Works by Joseph-Marie Vien are held by several collections, among them drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Musée Fabre, Département des peintures du Louvre, and Warszawas slott. Wikidata links 4 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Thomas Smith, Johann Valentin Tischbein, Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Charles-Nicolas Cochin, and Johann Georg Wille.

• Rococo
• The Cupid Seller