Pierre-Jacques Cazes

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'''Pierre-Jacques Cazes''' (1676 – 25 June 1754) was a French painter who specialized in religious and mythological subjects. He also taught several other French artists including François Boucher and Jean-Siméon Chardin.

== Biography == Cazes was born in Paris in 1676 to an officer and protégé of the Marquis de Louvois. At the behest of his father, Cazes was first tutored by an otherwise unknown artist named Ferou, concierge of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.<ref>{{Cite book |last=d'Argenville |first=Antoine Joseph Dézallier |title=Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres |year=1762 |volume=IV |location=Paris |pages=397–402 |language=French |author-link=Dezallier d'Argenville}}</ref> He was later instructed by the painters René-Antoine Houasse and Bon Boullogne.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/benezitdictionar03bene/page/630/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |title-link= |publisher=Éditions Gründ |year=2006 |volume=3, Bulow-Cossin |location=Paris |pages=630–631}}</ref>

Cazes competed in the Prix de Rome competition of 1698 with ''Joseph’s Cup Found in Benjamin’s Belongings'', but came in second place. He won the next year with ''Vision of Jacob in Egypt'', but chose not to go to Rome and instead remain in Paris.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Marandel |first=J. Patrice |via=Oxford Art Online |date=2003 |chapter=Cazes, Pierre-Jacques |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000015045 |access-date=27 July 2023 |title=Grove Art Online |publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T015045 |isbn=978-1-884446-05-4 |chapter-url-access= subscription }}</ref> He was received as an academician at the Académie Royale in 1703 with a ''Triumph of Hercules over Achelous''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rosenberg |first=Pierre |title=The Age of Louis XV: French Painting 1710-1774 |publisher=Toledo Museum of Art |year=1975 |location=Ohio |pages=25–26 |author-link=Pierre Rosenberg}}</ref> Cazes would later become its Director in 1744.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Hannah |title=Académie Royale: A History in Portraits |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-4094-5742-8 |pages=45}}</ref>

He worked in the ''Galerie d'Apollon'' in the Louvre in 1727 and produced a large number of religious paintings for churches in Paris and Versailles. His historical painting is in the same academic tradition as the French painters Charles Le Brun and Charles de Lafosse. He also painted paintings with mythological motifs and genre scenes.

A portrait the artist wearing a wig and holding a portfolio was presented to the ''Académie Royale'' in 1734 by Chardin's friend Joseph Aved.

== Selected works == * ''Joseph’s Cup Found in Benjamin’s Belongings'' (1698) – Earned Cazes second place at the 1698 Prix de Rome * ''Vision of Jacob in Egypt'' (1699) – Earned Cazes first place at the 1699 Prix de Rome, now at the Beaux-Arts de Paris * ''Triumph of Hercules over Achelous'' (1703) – Cazes's reception piece for the Académie Royale, now lost * ''St. Cecilia'' (1704) – Exhibited at the Salon of 1704, now at the Church of Saint-Médard, Paris * ''Le Christ et la Cananéenne'' (1706) – Produced for the May of 1706, now at the Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Le Christ et la Cananéenne |url=https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010053087 |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=collections.louvre.fr}}</ref> * ''Saint Pierre ressuscitant Tabithe'' (1720) – Produced for May 1720 for Saint-Germain-des-Prés, now lost. A reduction resides at {{No break|The Louvre, Paris}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=Saint Pierre ressuscitant Tabithe |url=https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010066444 |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=collections.louvre.fr}}</ref> * ''The Swing'' (1732) – The Louvre, Paris * ''Venus, Eros and Anteros'' – Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento<ref>{{Cite web |title=VENUS, EROS AND ANTEROS, N.D. |url=https://www.crockerart.org/collections/european-art/artworks/venus-eros-and-anteros-nd |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=crockerart.org |archive-date=27 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727070409/https://www.crockerart.org/collections/european-art/artworks/venus-eros-and-anteros-nd |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''Saint Francis receiving the stigmata –'' Church of Saint-Michel-de-Sillery, Quebec City

== Gallery (partial) == <gallery mode="packed" heights="200" caption="Works by '''Pierre-Jacques Cazes'''"> File:Cazes La Vision de Jacob.JPG|''Vision of Jacob in Egypt'' (1699) File:Cazes Christ guérissant l'hémorroïsse Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris.jpg|''Le Christ et la Cananéenne'' (1706; reduction of original that hung in Notre Dame) File:Cazes - SAINT PIERRE RESSUSCITANT TABITHE.jpg|''St. Peter raising Tabitha'' (1720; reduction of original that hung in Saint-Germain-des-Prés) File:Cazes, Pierre-Jacques - The Swing - 1732.jpg|''The Swing'' (1732) File:Saint Francois recevant les stigmates - Pierre-Jacques Cazes.jpg|''Saint Francis receiving the stigmata'' </gallery>

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