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Joseph-Marie Vien · 1748
Joseph-Marie Vien: 1716–1809
Other names (17)
graf j. m. vien, J.B. Vien, J. Marie Vien, J. M. Vien, Joseph Marie, Comte Vien, Joseph Marie, I Vien, Joseph Marie le Vien, Joseph-Marie, the elder Vien, Joseph Marie Vien, Joseph-Marie Vien the Elder, J. Vien, le Vien, Marie Vien, M^Tr^R Vien, M. Vien, M. Vien. Fait à Rome, Vien
Biography
Joseph-Marie Vien (18 June 1716 – 27 March 1809) was a French painter. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791, before it was abolished during the French Revolution.
He was born in Montpellier. As a protégé of the Comte de Caylus, he entered the studio of Natoire at an early age and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1745. He used his time at Rome in applying to the study of nature and the development of his own powers all that he gleaned from the masterpieces around him; but his tendencies were so foreign to the reigning taste that, upon his return to Paris, he owed his admission to the academy for his picture Daedalus and Icarus (Louvre) solely to the indignant protests of François Boucher.
In 1757, Joseph-Marie Vien married Marie-Thérèse Reboul, a French painter and engraver, who he also may have taught. Their son Joseph-Marie Vien the young was born in 1761 and later distinguished himself as a painter as well.
His most notably pupil was Jacques-Louis David, who had been referred to him by Jean-François Boucher in 1767 after refusing to take him on, stating he was too old to teach a young artist.
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Influenced by
- Charles-Joseph Natoireeditorial inference
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Later influence
- Pierre Lacour the Eldereditorial inference
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- Philibert-Louis Debucourteditorial inference
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- Jean-Baptiste Regnaulteditorial inference
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- Jean Duplessis-Bertauxeditorial inference
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- François-André Vincenteditorial inference
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- Jacques-Louis Davideditorial inference
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- Adolf Ulric Wertmüllereditorial inference
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Joseph-Marie Vien. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- National Gallery of Art53 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago39 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art9 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen5 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre3 recorded works
- musée des Augustins — Toulouse2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Béziers2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie — Troyes2 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nantes2 recorded works
- musée Grobet-Labadié — Marseille2 recorded works
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux1 recorded work
- Musée Fabre1 recorded work
- musée Lambinet — Versailles1 recorded work
- musée national Magnin — Dijon1 recorded work
- Palais-musée des Archevêques de Narbonne — Narbonne1 recorded work
- The Cleveland Museum of Art1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links
