Joseph Vivien

Place: Lyon

Born: 1657

Death: 1734

Biography:

Joseph Vivien (1657 – 5 December 1735) was a French painter of Lyon. He left his native Lyon for Paris at the age of twenty and found employment in the large atelier of Charles 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...