RUSSIE URSS CCCP 3/3

Tancrède et Hermine


Nicolas POUSSIN

Jacques Louis DAVID
autoportrait

Edgard DEGAS

Marcel CACHIN

Jean-Louis VOILLE
Femme au chapeau

Etienne MAURICE FALCONET
Statue de Pierre 1er

Eugène POTTIER
Auteur des paroles de l'internationale
150 ème anniversaire de sa naissance

Jeanne LABOURBE

Mission spatiale
RUSSIE-FRANCE

MANET
Le peintre français

Conférence de Paris sur l'EUROPE
1990

Louis le NAIN
Famille laitière

Escadrille Normandie - Niémen

INGRES
auto portrait

VOLTAIRE
Sculpture de HOUDON

Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
L'amour au village, l'amour paysan

Drapeau français
50 ème anniversaire
des relations diplomatiques
franco-soviétiques


RUSSIE URSS CCCP 3/3

Jean-Louis VOILLE - FRANCE

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The French artist Jean Louis Voille, a lyrical and subtle portraitist, who worked in Russia for many years and painted portraits of the members of Emperor Paul I's family and of numerous Russian noblemen.
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1744-1805


Jean-Louis Voille was born in Paris in 1744; he was a student of François Hubert Drouais. 
From early 1770s Voille worked in Russia, approximately in 1780 he became the court painter of the heir to the throne, Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich (future Emperor Paul I). In the middle of the 1790s he returned to France: Catherine II offered all Frenchmen in Russia to renounce the French Revolution, and Voille refused to sign the oath of allegiance and left for Paris.
 He came back to St. Petersburg after Napoleon I usurped power and the French Republic started to become an Empire. 
His portraits reveal soft delicacy and tact; strong passions do not disturb their peace of mind, it seems the painter does not see the dark sides in the characters of his sitters. 


http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rossika/voillebio.html
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_6_4a.html