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306 - Jules Romain JOYANT (1803-1854) Venice, the animated Grand C…
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Jules Romain JOYANT (1803-1854) Venice, the animated Grand Canal Oil on canvas 76 x 114 cm Provenance : Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Louis-François Sentecq à l'Isle Adam, (Val d'Oise) April-September 2003, no. 66, reproduced on p. 182. Jules-Romain Joyant was a genius romanticist of the mid-nineteenth century. He was a pupil of Bidauld, Lethière and the architect Huyot. He was noticed very early by the art critics of the time, from his first Salon of painting and sculpture in 1835. On Bonington's advice, he was probably one of the first French Romantic painters to adopt the watercolour technique, which until then had been typically English. Bonington also recommended that he go and draw and paint in Italy, which he did from 1829 onwards. He discovered a real passion for this country and spent a large part of his life on the road between Rome, Florence, Bologna and above all Venice. A landscape painter of urban architecture, he became a fervent admirer of his prestigious eighteenth-century Italian predecessors: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Canaletto and Francesco Guardi. Like them, he knew how to harmonise the richness and softness of colours with impeccable drawing, based on the use of curious optical devices, studied here for the first time. In 1974, the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Louis-Senlecq received a donation of 141 drawings from François Barbier, grandson of Charles Joyant (1833-1892) and nephew of Maurice Joyant[2], followed in 1980 by the great Campo Vaccino painting. This complete collection, from the preparatory sketches to the most finished oil paintings, shows the inner workings of a great Romantic védutist[3]. In 2003, a major exhibition was devoted to him in this museum.
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