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62 Antoine Jacques Phillippe de Marigny de Mandeville, 1833 Oil on canvas; 46 x 35 in. Louisiana State Museum Gift of Friends of the Cabildo COLONIAL THROUGH ANTEBELLUM LOUISIANA JEAN-JOSEPH VAUDECHAMP b. 1790, Rambervillers, France d. 1866, France Although he was in New Orleans for only a relatively brief period, French painter Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp almost single-handedly transformed the direction of portrait painting in Louisiana. During the 1830s, Vaudechamp regularly visited New Orleans during the winter months, where he painted Neoclassical portraits, often of elite French Creoles. On the most basic level, his success as a portrait painter in New Orleans encouraged other European artists to try their fortunes in the New World. More profoundly, he provided a model of academic practice to which many others aspired, introduced a full-fledged neoclassical style of painting in Louisiana, and offered clients a sophisticated visual conception of selfhood and identity. RAL  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=533 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=533

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