Jean Preudhomme

Jean Preudhomme or Preud'ho (m ) me or Prudhomme ( baptized on November 23, 1732 in role; buried on July 20, 1795 in La Neuveville ) was a Swiss painter.

Life and work

Jean Preudhomme was in Paris pupil of the famous painter Jean Baptiste Leprince and Jean -Baptiste Greuze. Preudhomme worked as a genre and landscape painter, portraitist and painter of animals. He also worked as a draftsman. However, his specialty was portraiture. In Switzerland, he worked mainly in Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel and Bern. 1782 to 1786 they named him in a Swiss publication as " portraitiste à la mode ". Work, especially portraits of this painter are rarely offered commercially.

In the collection of the National Museum of Scotland is the 1774 resulting paintings: Portrait of Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton, on his Grand Tour with his Physician Dr John Moore and the Latter 's son John. In the background of this painting the city of Geneva is to see where the painting has Preudhomme painted. The Duke of Hamilton and his companions lived two years in Geneva.

1789 made ​​Preudhomme to a portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm II. The portrait is in the Musée d' art et d' histoire of Neuchâtel. The model for the portrait Preudhomme probably served a portrait life-size of the king, which had given the governor of the city of Neuchâtel Béville 1788 for the new City Hall.

The Musée Rath has a portrait of a lady of Preudhomme.