Artist

Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine

Portrait of Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine
Portrait of Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine

French, 1745–1830

Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine was a French Rococo painting artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at National Museum in Kraków. Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine was born in Misy-sur-Yonne.

Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine (Polish: Jan Piotr Norblin; 15 July 1745 – 23 February 1830) was a French painter, draughtsman, engraver and caricaturist. Born in France, from 1774 to 1796 he resided in Poland. He is considered one of the most important painters of the Enlightenment in Poland.

He achieved great success in Poland. Given many commissions from some of the most notable families of the country, he stayed there for many years. His style showed the influence of Antoine Watteau, and combined the Rococo tradition of charming fêtes galantes and fêtes champêtres with a panorama of daily life and current political events, captured with journalistic accuracy.

He created a gallery of portraits of representatives of all social classes in the last years of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Works by Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine

Collections represented

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