Isaac Moillon
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Isaac Moillon (8 July 1614, Paris - 26 May 1673, Paris) was a French Baroque painter of scenes from mythology and the Bible. He also designed tapestries. His work was forgotten after his death, until interest was revived in the 1980s.
Biography[]
His father, the painter Nicolas Moillon (1555-1619), died when he was only five years old. Shortly after, his mother married another painter, still-lifes. His sister, Louise Moillon, would become one of the best known still-life painters of that period. Despite the intense religious situation at that time, both he and his sister remained Protestants.
, who specialized inHis first works date from 1634 to 1637. Between 1638 and 1640, he created decorations, mostly of a military nature, in the Hôtel Bautru, an hôtel particulier, under the direction of its architect, Louis Le Vau and the Master Builder Michel Villedo, in the Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs. It was demolished in 1823 to make way for the new Galerie Vivienne.[1] His fame at the time rested largely on murals depicting Christ as a healer, made at the Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune (now the Hospices de Beaune) in 1646. He was named a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1655.
As a painter to the King, he created several designs for tapestries, including a few on the history of Achilles, that were woven at the Aubusson manufactory.[2] Some are kept at the Hospices de Beaune, along with miniatures depicting scenes from the life of Christ. A series on Ulysses may be seen at the . The in Aubusson has nine pieces on Dido and Aeneas. Seven on the "Illustrious Women of Antiquity" are at the in Vaucluse.
References[]
- ^ Musée virtuel du protestantisme
- ^ "Conseil Général de la Creuse". Archived from the original on 2008-11-16. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
Further reading[]
- Nicole de Reyniès, Sylvain Laveissière, Un peintre du roi à Aubusson, Isaac Moillon 1614-1673, Éditions Somogy, 2005, 335 p., ISBN 978-2-85056-885-5
- Renaud Benoit-Cattin, "Quelques aspects de l'œuvre du peintre Isaac Moillon (1614-1673)", from In Situ. Revue du patrimoine, #2, 2002 (online)
- Jacques Wilhelm, "Un peintre oublié: Isaac Moillon de l'Académie royale. Ses œuvres à l'hôtel-Dieu de Beaune". in: Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1973, pgs. 113–132.
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- 1614 births
- 1673 deaths
- French artists
- French muralists
- French tapestry artists
- Artists from Paris