Saturday, July 23, 2016

Additional Etchings by Vivant Denon

Vivant Denon
Seven Figures in a Church
late 18th century
etching
British Museum

A further selection of work by the great Vivant Denon (1747-1825) who throve under the Bourbons, throve throughout the Revolution, throve under Napoleon, and continued to thrive for a decade after Napoleon was swept from the scene. Several of these etchings were exhibited to contemporary applause at biennial Paris Salons. Vivant Denon was altogether and quite comfortably an Establishment artist, with no prejudices about what sort of Establishment he served.

Vivant Denon
Philosophy bringing Illumination to Ignorance
1791
etching
British Museum

Vivant Denon after Marcantonio Raimondi
Pensive woman
late 18th century
etching
British Museum

Vivant Denon
Satyr and Nymph
ca. 1790-94
etching
British Museum

Vivant Denon
Young Nun's Dream
ca. 1790-94
etching
British Museum

Vivant Denon
The Procuress
ca. 1790-94
etching
British Museum

Vivant Denon after Guercino
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
1790s
etching
British Museum

Vivant Denon after Ferdinand Bol
Portrait of a woman
late 18th century
etching
British Museum

Vivant Denon after Jan Lievens
Portrait of a middle-aged man
early 19th century
lithograph
British Museum

Vivant Denon after Rembrandt
Lion
late 18th century
etching
British Museum

Vivant Denon after Titian
St Jerome with Lions
1791
etching
British Museum

Vivant Denon
Woman sewing near a window
late 18th century
etching
British Museum

Vivant Denon
Bertrand Barère, Revolutionary
ca. 1790-95
etching
British Museum

Vivant Denon
Self-portrait in nightgown
late 18th century
etching
British Museum

I am grateful to the British Museum for making available these excellent reproductions.