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Jean-Joseph-Xavier BIDAULD (Carpentras 1758 - Montmorency 18 - Lot 55

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Jean-Joseph-Xavier BIDAULD (Carpentras 1758 - Montmorency 18 - Lot 55
Jean-Joseph-Xavier BIDAULD (Carpentras 1758 - Montmorency 1846) View of Saint-Cosimato taken from life on the day of a nearby village fair Original canvas (Vallée Bourniche) Height : 45 cm Width: 61 cm Original frame Signed and dated lower right "Jph Bidauld / 1830"; recent chalk inscriptions on the reverse of the frame and stretcher frame and stretcher "30/40 et 1186"; inscribed on the reverse of the frame "Vue de S / Cosimato prise / d'après nature le / jour la foire nature on / the day of the fair / of a neighboring / village". Exhibition: Salon of 1831, n° 153. Born in Carpentras, Jean-Joseph Xavier Bidauld received his initial training in Lyon from 1768 to 1774, then in Switzerland and finally in Paris. Switzerland and finally Paris, where he had a decisive encounter with Joseph Vernet and the art dealer Dulac. From 1785, he traveled to Rome, where he was fascinated by the mountains of Lazio and the luminous quality of the Roman countryside. Roman countryside. Italy enriched and matured his art. Italy inspired his art for the rest of his life, as this view as this view shows. He produced many plein-air works there, as well as studies that he later reused in his studio. Returning to Paris in 1790, he exhibited his paintings at the Salon from 1791 onwards, and met with great success. He became the first landscape painter to be admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1823. This was followed by numerous commissions from the imperial family, notably Joseph Bonaparte and Caroline Murat.
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