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Dunkerque, Londres, Rome, Rennes: les pérégrinations du peintre Pieter Angellis

  • Autores: Guillaume Glorieux
  • Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 191, 2016, págs. 17-26
  • Idioma: francés
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    • Dunkerque, London, Rome, Rennes: the peregrination of the painter Peter Angillis.

      The Franco-flemish genre painter, Peter Angillis, occupies a singular place in art history. Born in Dunkerque, he achieved an international carreer between Antwerp, Dusseldorf, London, Rome and Rennes, where he died in 1734. These successive stays in different countries explain his sensitivity to several pictorial traditions: 17th century Flemish painting, that of Watteau, his strict contemporary -and English painting. Angillis not only drew his inspiration there, but also the elements for the elaboration of his own pictorial language.

      Angillis was highly successful. His works were acquired by the great collectors, notably the Marquis de Robien, president of the Parliament of Brittany, who purchased the remainder of his studio after his death (today in the Musée des Beaux Arts de Rennes).

      Too rapidly relegated to the level of "petit maître", Angillis deserves another assessment. Painter with astonishing faculties, he tried out more or less all the categories with equal talent: history painting, portraiture, still life painting, and genre scenes, which were his preference. In a context of the upheaval of esthetic values following the quarrel of color, his production illustrates the diversity of the paths taken by the genre scene in the beginning of the 18th century: Angillis painted elegant "fêtes galantes", English style conversation pieces, picturesque market scenes, fairs and village festivities in the Flemish spirit. In a word, he remains a European artist before the hour, one who circulated with ease between the major artistic centers of the Europe of the "Lumières".


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