Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Clarac (1777, Paris - 1847, Paris) was a French artist, scholar and archaeologist.
Life
Emigrating on the Revolution, he travelled round Europe, finding success in drawing and archaeology. The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an He became tutor to the children of Joachim Murat, king of Naples, and was charged by Murat with showing them round the ruins of Pompeii. Joachim-Napoléon Murat (born Joachim Murat) ( Gioacchino Napoleone Murat) ( March 25 1767 &ndash October 13 1815) Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples and Caserta in the Italian region of Campania, in He returned to France under the Consulate, and was made conservator of antiquities at the Louvre in 1818. The Consulate was the government of France between the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire in 1799 until the start of the In 1838 he was admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts as a free member. The Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts is a French Learned society.
Highly talented at drawing, he accompanied the diplomatic mission of the Duke of Luxemburg, extraordinary ambassador to king Louis XVIII, to Brazil. The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre located in Paris is the world's most visited art museum a historic monument and a national museum of France For other uses of Luxembourg see Luxembourg (disambiguation The territory of Luxembourg was ruled successively by Counts Louis XVIII (17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824 Louis Stanislas Xavier de France, was a King of France and Navarre. On the shores of the Paraîbo do Sul, in the woods of Rio Bonito to the north of Rio de Janeiro, he made several signed croquis, and once he was back in Europe worked them up into a large watercolour of the untouched and primitive forest interior of Brazil. Rio Bonito is a Municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro ("River of January" ˈhiw dʒi ʒʌˈnejɾu in Brazilian Portuguese, /ˈriːoʊ di ʒəˈnɛroʊ/ in English is the second largest city of Brazil Croquis drawing is quick and sketchy Drawing of a live model. The resulting work (also the result of minute study of tropical plants cultivated in the greenhouses of prince Maximilien zu Wied's château), Forêt vierge du Brésil, was shown at the Salon of 1819. Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied ( September 23, 1782 - February 3, 1867) was a German Explorer, The Salon (Salon or rarely Paris Salon (French Salon de Paris) beginning in 1725 was the official Art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts From its vegetal profusion emanates an organic luxuriance which several photographers later tried to emulate and reproduce. The famous naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, who had in his "Essay on the Geography of Plants" demanded that artists go to the New World and paint the richness of its vegetation, bought the work due to "its organic sense of the detail emanating from the totality of nature". (September 14 1769 &ndash May 6 1859 was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister philosopher and linguist It was acquired by the Louvre's "département des Arts graphiques" in 2004, and in 2005 a special exhibition was centred on it. [1][2]
Works
Besides a Catalogue du musée du Louvre and a Manuel de l'histoire de l'art, 1847, 3 volumes in-12, he wrote Musée de sculpture antique et moderne, 1826-1855, 6 volumes in-8, with plates in-4, a magnficient publication which used up his fortune and which he was unable to finish before his death.
Source
- This page is a translation of its French equivalent.
- "Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac", in Marie-Nicolas Bouillet and Alexis Chassang (dir. ), Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie, 1878
- Forêt vierge du Brésil - Louvre catalogue
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