Nymph and Putti; Nymph with a Wreath and Putti with Garlands of Flowers
at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Piat Joseph Sauvage
Flemish1744–1818
About
Piat Joseph Sauvage or Pieter Joseph Sauvage 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.
Notable works
Portrait de Bonaparte (1769-1821), en premier consul
at Musée Carnavalet
Unknown woman
at Nationalmuseum
La Peinture et la Sculpture protégées par Minerve
at Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
The Offering to Pan
at Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
Bacchanalia of Children
at Louvre Museum
Allegory of the Reign of Terror victims
at Nationalmuseum
Works in the collection
8 works
Nymph and Putti; Nymph with a Wreath and Putti with Garlands of Flowers
at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Portrait de Bonaparte (1769-1821), en premier consul
at Musée Carnavalet
Unknown woman
at Nationalmuseum
La Peinture et la Sculpture protégées par Minerve
at Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
The Offering to Pan
at Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
Bacchanalia of Children
at Louvre Museum
Allegory of the Reign of Terror victims
at Nationalmuseum
Ring with allegory in commemoration of the storming of the Tuileries Palace 10th august 1792
at Nationalmuseum
More by Piat Joseph Sauvage in institutions
Nationalmuseum
Stockholm, Sweden
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Manhattan, United States
Louvre Museum
Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, France
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
Ghent, Belgium
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Lille, France
Musée Carnavalet
3rd arrondissement of Paris, France
