Jean-Jacques Bachelier

Jean -Jacques Bachelier (* 1724 in Paris, † April 13, 1806 ) was a French painter.

He was a pupil of Jean -Baptiste Marie Pierre and worked together with the court painter Jean -Baptiste Oudry. In 1740 he came to the porcelain factory at Vincennes, the new location for the Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres in 1756. Bachelier was its artistic director. He became one of the favorite artists of Louis XV. and Madame de Pompadour, and received the title of Painter to the King (French peintre du roi ). Since 1752 he was a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.

In 1766 he founded in Paris the Ecole Royale Gratuite de Dessein. The Drawing School allowed an education of the sons of Parisian artisans. The art school existed until 1806, was renamed and is now called Paris School of Decorative Arts ( ENSAD ). There were studying famous artists such as Henri Matisse, Jean -Paul Goude and Jean Widmer. The 1786 adopted by Bachelier plan to open a similar drawing school for girls, he was forced to retire in 1789. Only in 1803 was able to realize the plan.

His painting ( still life, animals, hunting, historical subjects ) hang today in the Musée Lambinet in Versailles, in the National Museum of Palace of Fontainebleau, the Musée Leblanc - Duvernoy of Auxerre, at the Art Museum of Marseille, in the Louvre (Saint Simon ) and the Muséum national d' ' histoire Naturelle in Paris.

Works ( literature)

• Histoire et de la peinture secret à la cire, contre le comte de Caylus sentiment you. Paris 1755