Joseph Vivien

Plaats: Lyon

Geboren: 1657

Dood: 1734

Biografie:

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...