Jean-louis Demarne (1752-1829). Animated Landscape.

Jean-Louis Demarne was born in 1752 fortuitously in Brussels and died in 1823 in Paris. His parents, like all military households, often had to change garrison. His father Jean-Joseph was an officer in the service of the Emperor of Austria and had married Anne-Ernestine-Christine, born baroness of Ausechutz. After the death of his father, he arrived in Paris at the age of twelve. He spent his youth there, a student of the history painter Gabriel Briard in 1769-1770. He failed at the Prix de Rome in 1772 and 1774 It was then that he turned to genre painting He was inspired, like Nicolas-Antoine Taunay and Jean FréJeandéric Schall, by Dutch painters in full vogue in Paris at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was approved in 1783 at the Academy as an animal painter and exhibited at the Salon. Then he made a trip to Switzerland with Taunay. In 1828 he was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Specialist in genre scenes, he is strongly inspired by Dutch painters such as Paulus Potter, Dirck van Bergen, Van de Velde, his landscapes are very realistic. Museums: Fontainebleau, London, Louvre, Painted on its original canvas, its old frame is gilded with gold leaf.