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[[Neoclassicism|neoclassical]] portrait painter working in [[New Orleans]] in the [[1840s]] and [[1850s]].<ref name="gerdts">Gerdts, William H., Art Across America, Vol II, p. 94, 1990. ISBN 1-5589-033-1</ref> |
[[Neoclassicism|neoclassical]] portrait painter working in [[New Orleans]] in the [[1840s]] and [[1850s]].<ref name="gerdts">Gerdts, William H., Art Across America, Vol II, p. 94, 1990. ISBN 1-5589-033-1</ref> |
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Born in [[Maastricht]] a city until 1839. His father, Paul Serge AMANS, born in Narbonne (F) in 1765, was a officer ( Capitaine-Adjudant de place de 1ère classe à Maastricht) of Napoléon. Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans was trained in the [[France|French]] neoclassical tradition of portraiture. He exhibited at the [[Paris Salon]] from 1831 to 1837. News of fellow-artist [[Jean Joseph Vaudechamp]]’s good fortune in finding patrons probably led Amans to visit [[Louisiana]] since the two artists traveled on the same ship from France to [[New Orleans]] in about [[1837]]. Following Vaudechamp’s departure from Louisiana in 1839, Amans assumed the role as the most celebrated portraitist in Louisiana. In the mid 1840s he married Azoline Landreaux, the daughter of a [[St. Charles Parish]] sugar planter Pierre Honoré LANDREAUX and Joséphine ARMANT, and purchased Trinity Plantation on [[Bayou Lafourche]]. Amans and Azoline moved back to France in [[1856]] where he died in [[1888]], château de Lévis Saint Nom (78), never having returned to Louisiana.<ref name="gerdts" /> |
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Revision as of 19:50, 20 August 2010
Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans (1801–1888) was an French neoclassical portrait painter working in New Orleans in the 1840s and 1850s.[1]
Born in Maastricht a Belgian city until 1839. His father, Paul Serge AMANS, born in Narbonne (F) in 1765, was a French officer ( Capitaine-Adjudant de place de 1ère classe à Maastricht) of Napoléon. Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans was trained in the French neoclassical tradition of portraiture. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1831 to 1837. News of fellow-artist Jean Joseph Vaudechamp’s good fortune in finding patrons probably led Amans to visit Louisiana since the two artists traveled on the same ship from France to New Orleans in about 1837. Following Vaudechamp’s departure from Louisiana in 1839, Amans assumed the role as the most celebrated portraitist in Louisiana. In the mid 1840s he married Azoline Landreaux, the daughter of a St. Charles Parish sugar planter Pierre Honoré LANDREAUX and Joséphine ARMANT, and purchased Trinity Plantation on Bayou Lafourche. Amans and Azoline moved back to France in 1856 where he died in 1888, château de Lévis Saint Nom (78), never having returned to Louisiana.[1]
Work
Clara Mazureau, whose portrait Amans painted when she was a young girl, was the daughter of Aimée Grima and Etienne Mazureau, Attorney General of Louisiana. Amans completed the portraits of several members of the Grima and Mazureau families in the 1840s. As in the Clara Mazureau portrait, Amans- favored the three quarter length pose. Influenced by the French neoclassical artists Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Jacques-Louis David, Amans emphasized meticulous draftsmanship and realism with particular attention to the sitter’s face and hands.
Famous subjects
Among Amans' most famous subjects was President Andrew Jackson, who sat for his portrait in 1840 (the 25th Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans). The painting is rich in details of both physiognomy and surroundings shows an elderly, though not frail, former president.