Robert Gardelle
Robert Gardelle | |
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| Born | April 1682 |
| Died | 7 March 1766 (aged 83) |
Robert Gardelle (6 April 1682 - 7 March 1766) was a Swiss artist, engraver and etcher[1] born in Geneva, then in the Republic of Geneva. He studied under Largillière in Paris, where he distinguished himself as a portrait painter, producing also etchings of portraits and of views of Geneva.[2] Gardelle is known for both the quantity of portraits he produced and the speed with which he produced them; Cambridge University Library noted during a 1978 exhibition that Gardelle was prolific and "often painted portraits in two or three days."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ In the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland he is described as having been born in Geneva, but being from Lyon, thus French. There is no indication there that he became a citizen of the Republic of Geneva, and a fortiori that he ever became Swiss. In some recent databases such as ULAN though, he is sometimes referred to as being Swiss.
- ^ Michael Bryan, Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Volume 2, D-G. Robert Edmund Graves and Walter Armstrong, eds. New York: Macmillan, 1903; pg. 215.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Leigh, R. A. (1978). Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778: catalogue of an exhibition at Cambridge University Library July-September, 1978. Cambridge University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-902205-31-4.
Further reading
[edit]- Dagmar Böcker: Gardelle, Robert. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
- Auguste Bouvier: Quatre vues de Genève peintes par Robert Gardelle, Genève 1931
- Waldemar Deonna: Le peintre Robert Gardelle 1682-1766. Impr. du "Journal de Genève", 1943
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