Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet (1759 – 7 July 1842) was a French historical painter and a pupil of
Jacques-Louis David. He painted subjects from sacred and profane history, poetry, and portraits. He won the Prix de Rome in 1797, and continued to
exhibit until 1819. Charles Gabet does not mention the date of his birth or death.
1807 he manufactured the portrait on behalf emperors
Napoléon as counterpart to the work of
Empress Joséphine who
Robert Lefèvre 1805 had implemented. Napoléon gave these two portraits of the city
Aachen to 1807. After their deportation of Aachen into the city lock of
Berlin on order Friedrich Wilhelm IV copies were made before he sent the paintings back 1840 to Aachen. Probably
Professor Carl Schmid painted the
reproductions. The original works decorate today the entrance hall of
Aachen city hall.
Hector Isabey (1797–1814), sign., oil on canvas, 141 × 98 cm (55,5 × 38,6 in). 1994 auction.
Eugenie Isabey (1803–1886), oil on canvas, 141 × 98 cm (55,5 × 38,6 in). 1994 auction.
Alexandrine Isabey (1791–1871), Madame Charles Ciceri, sign., oil on canvas, 141 × 98 cm (55,5 × 38,6 in). 1994 auction.
Mme. H and her children, 1815, oil on canvas, 165.4 × 122.6 cm (651⁄8 × 481⁄4 in). Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, 62.75 Seattle Art Museum The Collection Holocaust Provenance.
Literature
J. Fey: „Zur Geschichte Aachener Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts.“ in: „Aus Aachens Vorzeit. Mit-teilungen des Vereins für Kunde der Aachener Vorzeit.“ Zehnter Jahrgang 1897, Nr. 4/8. S. 70–72. Kurzbiografie von Schmid. S.83f.
"BOUCHET, Louis André Gabriel" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1889 publication now in the public domain.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Bryan, Michael (1886).
"Bouchet, Louis André Gabriel". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.