Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, known as Fontaine (19 March 1769, Metz - 10 December 1823, Paris) was a French painter and designer. He is best known for his genre and battle scenes.
Biography
He first learned painting from his father François Louis Swebach-Desfontaines (1749-1793), a self-taught amateur artist and a Member of the Scientific Society of Metz who illustrated Histoire naturelle : ou, Exposition des morceaux, les mieux choisis pour servir à l'étude de la minéralogie et de la cristallographie. Jacques François then studied with Joseph Duplessis in Paris.[1] In the late 1780s, he frequented the woods near the Château de Fontainebleau, with Lazare Bruandet and Georges Michel, painting landscapes.[2]
^Raphaël Aracil de Dauksza and Damien Dumarquez, Peintures du 19th century, Galerie La Nouvelle Athènes, 2020
^Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins sculptures, architecture et gravure, Exposés au Muséum central des Arts, Impr. des sciences et des arts, 1798. Online
^Régine Plinval de Guillebon, La manufacture de porcelaine de Guérhard et Dihl, dite du duc d'Angoulême, The French porcelain society, 1988. Online
^Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, "Tout savoir du service encyclopédique", in Grande Galerie, Le Journal du Louvre, Number 40, 2017
Further reading
Anne Dion-Tenenbaum and Tamara Préaud, Le Service encyclopédique de la manufacture de Sèvres, Somogy, 2010, ISBN978-2-7572-0423-8