Edme Quenedey des Ricets

Edme Quenedey ( born December 17, 1756 in Riceys -le-Haut, † February 16, 1830 in Paris) was a French portrait artist.

Biography

Quenedey settled in 1785 as Porträtminiaturist in Paris, working from April 1788 to August 1789 as a draftsman and partner in the studio by Gilles -Louis Chrétien, the inventor of Physionotrace, a device that mechanized the process of portraiture in part. Quenedey made ​​to the single figure of Physionotrace - system, a drawing that allows the reconstruction of the machine and the working process of the so supported portraiture. On August 18, 1789, the collaboration between the artist and the inventor Quenedey and etcher Chrétien broke apart. He led until 1795 under changing addresses Physionotrace own workshop, but then went on in 1796 Antwerp and Brussels to Hamburg, where already dated in the same year portraits are detectable by him. In August 1801, he was back in Paris, and changed its name to the Rue Neuve -des- Petits -Champs No. 15 until his death in 1830. His daughter Aglaée led the studio an uncertain time on.

Work and significance

Quenedey is considered skillful popularizer of the invention Chrétien. It has been calculated that his productivity in good years was on average two Physionotrace portraits per day. The formal shape to its standardized portraits follows exactly the model Chrétien: A half-length portrait in profile is seen in the round (diameter 6 cm ) or high oval picture and is accompanied at the bottom of a round co-printed signature, which is, for example, after 1801 " ' Dess. au Physionotrace et grave par Quenedey rue neuve of Petite- champs # 15 à Paris ". Accordingly, he is regarded not only as a signatory to the portraits, but they also put themselves in the copper engraving, more specifically in the etching in order.