Joseph-Benoît Suvée

Joseph -Benoît Suvée ( born January 3, 1743 Bruges, † February 9, 1807 ) was a Flemish painter.

Life

Suvée was in his early years a pupil of the Flemish painter Matthias de Visch. At age 19, he came to Paris, where he deepened the painting under Jean -Jacques Bachelier. In 1771 he won the Prix de Rome and went for further studies in Rome at the Académie de France à Rome, where he lived from 1772 to 1778. He then returned to Paris and opened his own art studio, where young painters learned. One of his pupils was Constance Mayer. In competition, he was the painter Jacques -Louis David. As the successor of François -Guillaume Ménageot he was in 1792 director of the Académie de France à Rome, which he headed until 1807. He was succeeded in office 1807 Pierre -Adrien Pâris. At times he was incarcerated at that time in prison Saint- Lazare in Paris.

Works (selection)

• Achilles the head of Hector, pointing at the feet of the body of Patroclus (1769, Louvre)
• Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, (1795, Louvre)

Gallery ( selection)

La Comtesse Clément de Ris, about 1795

Dominique Clément de Ris, about 1795

The Resurrection, Bruges, in the Church of Saint Walburga, 1783

Coligny impressed his murderers, 1787

The Battle of Mars and Minerva

Milo of Croton, 1763

Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, 1795

André Chenier

The Holy Family with the child to 1785-1791

Erminia and the Shepherds

The invention of the art of drawing, 1791, Groeningemuseum, Bruges