Jean-Gaspard Heilmann

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Jean-Gaspard Heilmann
Autoportrait en costume d'apparat
Born	Jean-Gaspard Heilmann 1718 Mulhouse, France
Died	27 September 1760(1760-09-27) (aged 41–42)
Nationality	French
Occupation	Painter
Known for	First painter of king Louis XV

Jean-Gaspard Heilmann^{[needs German and French IPA]} (c. 1718 – 27 September 1760) was an 18th-century French painter, author of popular landscapes, historical scenes and fine portraits.^[1] He was the first Mulhouse painter who enjoyed a certain notoriety in Paris.^[2]

Biography

Born in Mulhouse, from a Mulhouse family documented since the 16th century,^[3] an orphan at a very young age, he was formed in Schaffhausen by the painter Hans Deggeller, then at Basel (Switzerland).

Noticed by the cardinal of Tencin,^[4] he followed him to Rome and executed many commissions for him. The French Ambassador to Rome took him to Paris in 1742.^[5] Heilmann lived there until his death and connected with the engraver Jean-Georges Wille and François Boucher, first painter of king Louis XV.

He died in Paris in 1760 at the age of 42.

Selected works

• Portrait de femme (oil), 1748, Musée Magnin in Dijon
• Portrait d'homme et son pendant Portrait de femme (1749), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
• Sous-bois (drawing), Musée Bonnat in Bayonne
• Autoportrait en costume d'atelier (oil), Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
• Autoportrait en costume d'apparat (oil), c. 1750, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
• Deux natures mortes, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse

References

1. "Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse : Collections alsaciennes, p. 3" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-18. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
2. Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse, plaquette, Musées Mulhouse Sud Alsace, p. 10
3. Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, article by Raymond Oberlé, issue No 16, p. 1480
4. La Bourgeoisie alsacienne : études d'histoire sociale (preface by Jean Schlumberger, illustrations by Paul Spindler, Istra, Strasbourg, 1967, p. 256
5.  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Bibliography

• Johann Kaspar Füssli, Histoire des meilleurs peintres de la Suisse, Zurich, 1755–1756, vol. 3, p. 196
• Ernest Meininger, Les anciens artistes-peintres et décorateurs mulhousiens jusqu'au XIXe siècle. Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire de l'art à Mulhouse, 1908, reissued at Nabu Press in 2010 ISBN 978-1143477645; full original text online [1], numerous biographical references
• Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne [fr], article by Raymond Oberlé, issue No 16, p. 1480

External links

• Louis-Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes, vol. 19, Desplaces, Paris, 1843-18..., p. 49
• J. Caspar Heilmann (18th century engraving in intaglio, on the website of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art)
•  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• Louis-Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes, Desplaces, Paris, 1843-18..., p. 49
• Œuvres dans les collections des musées d'art et d'histoire de la ville de Genève