Piat Joseph Sauvage - Artist Info

About Piat Joseph Sauvage

Name variants

Joseph Sauvage, Piat-Joseph Sauvage, Pieter Joseph Sauvage
  • Biography

    Piat Joseph Sauvage (1744-1818), a native of Tournai, perfected his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp under the guidance of history and grisaille painter Martin-Joseph Geeraerts. He moved to Paris in 1774 and became a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc. First painter to Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé in 1780, then to King Louis XVI, he was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de la sculpture in 1781 (received in 1783). He exhibited regularly at the Salon until 1804. From 1797 to 1804, he worked for the Parisian porcelain manufacturer Dihl et Guerhard, and from 1804 to 1807 for the Sèvres factory. In 1808, he returned to Tournai to take charge of the Académie de Dessin, where he died in 1818. Sauvag...

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