(December 6, 1750 - February 16, 1819) was a French painter.
Valenciennes worked in Rome from 1778 to 1782, where he made a number of landscape studies directly from nature, sometimes painting the same set of trees or house at different times of day.He theorized on this idea in Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape (1800), developing a concept of a "landscape portrait" in which the artist paints a landscape directly while looking upon it, taking care to capture its particular details.Although he spoke of this as a type of painting mainly of interest to "amateurs", as distinguished from the higher art of the academies, he found it of great interest, and of his own works the surviving landscape portraits have been the most noted by later commentators. He in particular urged artists to capture the distinctive details of a scene's architecture, dress, agriculture, and so on, in order to give the landscape a sense of belonging to a specific place; in this he probably influenced other French artists active in Italy who took an anthropological approach to painting rural areas and customs, such as Hubert Robert, Pierre-Athanase Chauvin and Achille-Etna Michallon. (December 6, 1750 - February 16, 1819) was a French painter.
Valenciennes worked in Rome from 1778 to 1782, where he made a number of landscape studies directly from nature, sometimes painting the same set of trees or house at different times of day.He theorized on this idea in Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape (1800), developing a concept of a "landscape portrait" in which the artist paints a landscape directly while looking upon it, taking care to capture its particular details.Although he spoke of this as a type of painting mainly of interest to "amateurs", as distinguished from the higher art of the academies, he found it of great interest, and of his own works the surviving landscape portraits have been the most noted by later commentators. He in particular urged artists to capture the distinctive details of a scene's architecture, dress, agriculture, and so on, in order to give the landscape a sense of belonging to a specific place; in this he probably influenced other French artists active in Italy who took an anthropological approach to painting rural areas and customs, such as Hubert Robert, Pierre-Athanase Chauvin and Achille-Etna Michallon. (English)
View of the Palace of Nemi. Oljemålning Nr:: 72094 new23/Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes-395857.jpg
Landscape from the french painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. View of the Palace of Nemi.
A Capriccio of Rome with the Finish of a Marathon Oljemålning Nr:: 72266 new23/Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes-334967.jpg
Date 1788
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions ? X cm
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Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes Oljemålning Nr:: 81781 new24/Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes-695344.gif
Date 1787
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 119 x 162 cm
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Storm by a Lake Oljemålning Nr:: 85166 new25/Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes-548635.jpg
Date 1780(1780)
Medium Oil on paper on canvas
Dimensions Height: 40 cm (15.7 in). Width: 52 cm (20.5 in).
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the Two Poplar Trees Oljemålning Nr:: 85193 new25/Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes-398959.jpg
Date 1780(1780)
Medium Oil on paper on cardbord
Dimensions Height: 25 cm (9.8 in). Width: 38 cm (15 in).
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