Jérôme-François Chantereau

Jérôme-François Chantereau, a French painter, engraver, and art dealer[1][2] who was born in Paris about 1710. Chantereau was a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc, and in his youth became a court painter to the King of Denmark.[2]

His works were chiefly battle-pieces and hunting-scenes, painted with considerable life and movement. They recall Jean-Antoine Watteau's.[2] In fact, it is probable that he studied under Watteau or Pater. A scarce etching of his exists, entitled, Divertissement par eau et par mer, or, as it is sometimes called, L'lle de Cythère. Chantereau was also an art dealer.[2]

During a dinner in Paris on April 16, 1741, Chantereau had an altercation with his friend (or possibly his rival),[2] fellow art dealer and art restorer Joseph Ferdinand Godefroid over the attribution of a 17th-century painting to Carlo Maratta. The two wound up fighting with swords in a duel just outside the gates of the Louvre. Godefroid was pierced in the ribs and died on the spot, on the Cour Carrée,[3] or in a nearby church.[2] Chantereau was acquitted, as it was impossible to determine who started the fight.[3]

He died in 1757.[1]

References
  1. "Jérôme-François Chantereau". British Museum.
  2. Altun, Yasemin. "Aprons Made from Canvas: The Legacies of Marie-Jacob Godefroid, Restauratrice to the French Royal Art Collections, 1741-1775" (PDF): 2–3, 23. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Gardner, James (2020). The Louvre The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum. Grove Atlantic.

Bibliography
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Chantereau, J.". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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