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Jacques Sablet

Switzerland · 1749–1803

Jacques-Henri Sablet (b. 1749, Morges, † 22 Aug.1803, Paris) was a Swiss-French painter, part of a family of artists of Swiss origin. He was also known as Franz der Römer, Giacomo Sablez, Giacomo Sablé, Jacob Henry Sablet, Sablet le Jeune, Sablet le Romain or le peintre du Soleil. == Early life == Sablet was born in Morges, near Lausanne. After a brief local training in Lausanne studying with his father, the painter and picture dealer Jacob Sablet (b.

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A painter of undoubted originality, his body of work is little known apart from family portraits in which fragile silhouettes stand out against large, pure skies, and Italian scenes with warm colours and sharp contrasts, successful themes of Giandomenico Tiepolo or Goya, such as the "Colin-maillard" (1791), a masterpiece of the genre. Almost all the mythological paintings have disappeared, whereas in his early days, Jacques Sablet represented himself as a history painter in his "Autoportrait dans l'atelier" (around 1779). A contemporary history painting, "Le dix-huit brumaire", was not executed (but a preparatory oil sketch, "La salle des Cinq-Cent à Saint-Cloud le soir du 18 brumaire an VIII", remains in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes). The genre scenes, not gallant but «bene moratae», so highly esteemed by contemporaries, are mostly lost, were it not for "Les premiers pas de l'enfance" (1789), already mentioned, now in the Collezione Pedriali. Many subjects, and some of the most original, are known only by mention.