Jean Joseph Xavier Bidauld (1758 - 1846)
French painter
Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (1758 – 1846), French landscape painter born in Carpentras, Provence. Moved in 1768 to Lyon where he studied together with his brother Jean Pierre Xavier Bidauld. A trip to Switzerland in the late 1770s opened the beauty of the Swiss landscape to the brothers.
In 1783 Bidauld moved to Paris, where he most likely was a pupil of Claude Joseph Vernet. The art dealer and perfume seller Dulac became his patron and hired him for restauring and copying works of the 17th century Netherlandish school.
In 1785, Dulac financed a trip to Italy where Bidault spent five years in Rome. He travelled widely through Italy, painting many landscapes in open air. After his return to Paris in 1791 Bidault entered the Salon for the first time, exhibiting five paintings. Thereafter he participated regularly until 1844. He began receiving official commissions; in 1800 Charles IV of Spain ordered four landscapes. In 1823 he became the first landscape painter elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
At the time of his death in 1846, his work was considered conservative as the Brabizon School was on the rize.
Overview | Works (10)
View of the Waterfalls at Tivoli
1788
1788
Débuché before the Grand Trianon
1810
1810
An Alpine landscape with figures bathing and fishermen in their boats nearby
Napoleon I and Marie-Louise Set off for the Hunt at the Château de Compiègne
1811
1811
Napoleon I and Marie-Louise out Walking at the Château de Saint-Cloud
1811
1811
A mountainous river landscape with the Monastery of San Cosimato, to the north of Rome
View of the City of Avezzano, on the Banks of Lake Cellano, Naples
1789
1789
A view of a hillside town, possibly Tivoli
The Park at Mortefontaine
1806
1806
An Italianate landscape with a view of a fortified town