Galerie Lebrun
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| Established | 1787 |
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| Location | 4 Rue Gros-Chenet (now Rue de Sentier) Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48°52′09″N 2°20′53″E / 48.8691°N 2.3480°E |
| Type | Art museum |
| Architect | Jean-Armand Raymond |
| Owner | Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun |
Galerie Lebrun or Lebrun Gallery was an art gallery of Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, formerly based in Paris, France.
History
[edit]Galerie Lebrun was located in Paris in the Kingdom of France in the late 18th century. It was named after Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, a French painter and art dealer who was married to French portraitist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Le Brun had leased the 17th century Hôtel de Lubert on rue de Cléry in 1776, using it as a nine-room gallery apartment.[1] J.B.P Le Brun had renovated the Hôtel de Lubert to host exhibitions and art sales.[2][3]
In July 1778, Le Brun acquired the full hotel building and, by the mid-1780s, developed the Galerie Lebrun as an exhibition hall.[4] The location, adjoining the Hôtel de Lubert, housed an art gallery and a salesroom with a façade on 4 Rue Gros-Chenet (now Rue du Sentier) in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris.[5] The architect behind the design was Jean-Armand Raymond, later associated with the Louvre.[6]
Le Brun used the space to display gallery holdings, conduct estate sales, and present a range of exhibitions.[7] The Galerie LeBrun was noted in the Journal de Paris as a space where students and amateurs could learn while the King's museum was under construction.[8]
18th century
[edit]An estate sale of the Comte de Vaudreuil's paintings, furniture, and porcelains took place at Le Brun's gallery in Paris on 26 November 1787.[9]
Exhibitions showcasing the works of young artists were frequently held at the gallery.[7] The Galerie Lebrun hosted the Exposition de la Jeunesse in 1789 and 1790.[10]
19th century
[edit]Hippolyte Sebron made his debut as a genre painter at the Galerie Lebrun in 1824.[11]
Exposition au profit des Grecs
[edit]On 17 May 1826, the gallery held a major exhibition to raise funds for the War of Greek Independence called the Expositions au profit des Grecs.[12] Jacques-Louis David's complete body of work, featuring his drawings and notably The Death of Socrates, was displayed at the gallery.[13] The painting The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan by Eugène Delacroix was sent to the gallery as well as Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi.[14] French history painter Jacques-Antoine Vallin entered his work at the exhibition.[15] French painter and lithographer Pierre-Roch Vigneron also exhibited in 1826, at the gallery, L'enfant abandonné (The abandoned child). The exhibition closed on 19 September 1826. Published that year, Les expositions de la galerie Lebrun, showcased the first catalog of prints from the gallery's modern art exhibition.[16]
In the winter of 1827–28, the Galerie Lebrun was directed by Binant and hosted an exhibition featuring works that were not accepted into the Salon at the Louvre.[10]
Exposition au profit de la caisse ouverte pour l'extinction de la mendicité
[edit]A few years later, a new painting exhibition was organized at the gallery to support philanthropic causes. On 15 May 1829, the Parisian gallery hosted an exhibition for the benefit of the fund opened for the extinction of begging titled Exposition au profit de la caisse ouverte pour l'extinction de la mendicité.[17] Among the artists showcased, the Galerie Lebrun displayed two works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Le Château Saint-Ange and Le Matin sur la place Saint-Marc à Venise.[18] During the exhibition, 1,000 copies of the Explanation of the Works of Painting and Sculpture Exhibited at the Lebrun gallery were registered on 12 June 1829, and 1,000 supplements to the catalog.[19]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Spieth, Darius A. (2018-01-01). Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-27675-8.
- ^ Le provincial à Paris ou Etat actuel de Paris,... Et cinq cartes nouvelles ; dont une contient le plan général de Paris & ses quatre divisions,... et les quatre autres, chacune une des quatre divisions de Paris,.... (1787). France: chez le Sieur Wattin, fils.
- ^ Art, Pictorial and Industrial: An Illustrated Magazine. (1870). United Kingdom: S. Low, son, & Marston.
- ^ Hillairet, J. (1960). Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris (1). France: (Les Éditions de Minuit) réédition numérique FeniXX.
- ^ Oliver, B. W. (2013). Surviving the French Revolution: A Bridge Across Time. United States: Lexington Books.
- ^ Oliver, B. W. (2018). Jean-Baptiste-Pierre LeBrun: In Pursuit of Art (1748–1813). United States: Hamilton Books.
- ^ a b Lorente, J. P. (2016). The Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and Development. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
- ^ Oliver, B. W. (2007). From Royal to National: The Louvre Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale. United States: Lexington Books.
- ^ Bailey, C. B. (2002). Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris. Kiribati: Yale University Press.
- ^ a b Wrigley, R. (1993). The origins of French art criticism : from the Ancien Régime to the Restoration. United Kingdom: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Viardot, L. (1883). The Masterpieces of French Art Illustrated: Being a Biographical History of Art in France, from the Earliest Period to and Including the Salon of 1882. United States: Gebbie.
- ^ Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century: Historicism, Postmodernism, and Internationalism. (2021). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
- ^ Radical Draftsman. (2022). United Kingdom: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- ^ Gazette des beaux-arts: la doyenne des revues d'art. (1876). United States: Gazette des Beaux-Arts.
- ^ Bellier de La Chavignerie, É. (1864). Notes pour servir à lh́istoire de lÉxposition de la Jeunesse qui avait lieu chaque année à Paris: les jours de la grande et de la petite Féte-Dieu à la place Dauphine et sur le Pont-Neuf. Belgium: V. Jules Renouard.
- ^ Bibliographie de la France: 1827. (1827). France: (n.p.).
- ^ Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, N. M. (1989). French Images from the Greek War of Independence (1821-1830): Art and Politics Under the Restoration. United Kingdom: Yale University Press.
- ^ Tinterow, G., Pantazzi, M., Pomarède, V. (1996). Corot. United States: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- ^ Bouillo, E. (2009). Le Salon de 1827: classique ou romantique?. France: Presses universitaires de Rennes.