Johann Anton de Peters

Johann Anton de Peters ( born January 16, 1725 in Cologne, † October 6, 1795 ) was a German painter, draftsman and etcher of the Rococo in Cologne and Paris.

Life

Johann Anton de Peters was born the son of a writing master and miniature painter Wilhelm Anton Peters, where he also learned the painting. From 1756 the stay of de Peters is in Paris, where he became a member of the Académie de Saint -Luc. Through contacts with the court Peters was knighted in 1764 for the first time evidenced by entries in the journal of the engraver JG Wille. De Peters married in Paris, the miniature painter Elisabeth de Gouel Villebrun. From 1768 de Peters court painter Christian VII, king of Denmark, from which he received an order for four miniature portraits while traveling abroad in Paris was called. During this time, de Peters operated as a collector and dealer of art and publishers of music.

The French Revolution brought for de Peters the end of the well-off life, he impoverished and finally returned in 1791 to his native city of Cologne. Since de Peters received only a few orders, among others, his patron Ferdinand Franz Wallraf, he died in poverty.

Works

The knowledge of the work of de Peters is primarily due to the collection of the Wallraf -Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud because Wallraf has acquired the complete estate. Many works that are occupied by stitches, presumed lost. Get in addition to a few paintings and miniatures mainly drawings and graphics. A portion of this vast inventory of more than 680 drawings produced in Paris is presented in summer 2012 in the Graphic Cabinet of the Cologne Museum. The exhibition has been prepared under direction of the Berlin art historian Gerrit Walczak with students of the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne.

Swell

Johann Anton de Peters: A Cologne painters of the 18th century in Paris ( exhibition catalog Wallraf -Richartz Museum, Cologne 1981)