Joseph Aved

Jacques- André- Joseph- Camelot Aved or Avet ( born January 12, 1702 Douai, now Nord-Pas -de- Calais, † March 4, 1766 in Paris) was a leading portraitist of the French rococo, art collectors and art dealers.

Life and work

Called Camelot Aved, also called " le Camelot " or " le Batave ", was born in the Flemish Douai son of a physician. After the early death of his father, his mother married a Dutch officer and the family moved to Amsterdam. He then received his education there at Boitard and Bernard Picart, 1721 in Paris by Alexis Simon Belle. With his students Carle van Loo, François Boucher, Dumont le Romain and especially Jean Siméon Chardin he was a friend. He developed the concept of " psychological portraits ". 1731, he was free, in 1734 a full member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture; 1734 he took over the function of a Conseillers. 1759 Aved involved the last time at a salon.

Aved had a large art collection, in addition to the works of his French contemporaries and older Italian and especially Dutch champions were represented. He also worked as an art dealer. His collection was sold at auction in 1766 in Paris.

Among other portraits of Madame de Aved Crozat (1741, Musee Fabre, Montpellier), the Dutch governor William IV of Orange (1751, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) and the French composer Jean -Philippe Rameau ( Musée des Beaux -Arts, Dijon ).

His paintings are now in many French museums including the Louvre, the Museum of Fine Arts Dijon, Nantes Museum of Art, the Musée Condé in Chantilly, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, but also in the Netherlands.