Artist
Piat Joseph Sauvage
Southern Netherlands, 1744–1818
Piat Joseph Sauvage was a Southern Netherlands Rococo painting painter. 10 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them oil paintings. Piat Joseph Sauvage was born in Tournai.
Piat Joseph Sauvage or Pieter Joseph Sauvage (19 January 1744 in Tournai – 11 June 1818 in Tournai) was a painter, sculptor, printmaker and academic lecturer from the Southern Netherlands. He was known for his decorative paintings of interiors, grisailles and miniatures using trompe l'oeil effects as well as his small-scale portrait carvings. He often used precious materials such as marble, porcelain and ivory as the support for his paintings.
He was a court painter to the governor of the Southern Netherlands, the Prince de Condé and the French king Louis XVI and a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
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