- Joseph Vivien
Joseph Vivien (
Lyon 1657 —Bonn , 5 December 1735) was a French painter ofLyon , virtually the inventor of the portrait inpastel s.He left Lyon for
Paris at the age of twenty and found employment in the large atelier ofCharles Le Brun , the equivalent of an academy. He made his reputation by his portraits in pastels, to which he gave a sparkle and immediacy hitherto unreached in that medium.He was received in the
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1701, under the designation "peintre en pastel". He was appointed counsellor to the Academy and provided lodging under royal auspices at theGobelins .Vivien was taken up by the
Elector of Cologne and worked atMunich , as first painter to Maximilian Emmanuel, Elector of Bavaria. At the time of his death he was engaged on a vast canvas combining portraits of the whole family of the Elector, in oils.elected illustrations of Vivien's portraits
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Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria
*Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, Prince of Asturias
*Robert de Cotte , 1701
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