Antoine Pesne A French-born Court Painter of Prussia
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Antoine Pesne (1683 – 1757) was a French-born court painter of Prussia. Starting in the manner of baroque, he became one of the fathers of rococo in painting. His work represents a link between the French school and the Frederican rococo style.

In 1710, Pesne was called to Berlin by King Frederick I of Prussia. The king had seen and liked a painting of a German nobleman Pesne had completed in Venice and wanted Pesne to complete a study of himself. Upon the death of the king in 1713, Pesne worked in the courts of Dresden and Dessau, and later visited London and Paris, where he was made a full member of the Academie Royale in 1720. While there, he painted the a portrait of a well-known collector Pierre-Jean Mariette in 1723. Mariette had extensive international connections with other artists and, importantly with patrons.

Pesne used a style similar to that made famous in France during the reign of Louis XIV, although his use of colors was softer and his touch more “painterly.” His “View of Rheinsberg” (1737) demonstrates the engagement of people with nature, a theme popular at the time. Most of his decorative work at Rheinsberg and later in Berlin and Potsdam at Sanssoucci, included myhtiological and allegorical scenes, such as the ceiling in the audience room at Sanssouci: Zephyr Crowns Flora. The presence of such artists as Pesne throughout the capitals of Europe guaranteed the expansion of French influence into all the arts.

Selected works of Antoine Pesne

Frederick I, first king of Prussia (before 1713)
Young Frederick with his sister, Wilhelmine (c. 1715), as children.
Portrait of Anna Orzelska with a pug, c. 1728, National Museum, Warsaw
Frederick Wilhelm I, the “Soldier King” (c. 1733)
Fredrick II, later “the Great”, as crown prince (c. 1736)
Adolf Frederick as crown prince of Sweden. Dresden in the uniform of the royal Swedish Garde du Corps (c. 1743).
Louise Eleonore von Wreech née. von Schöning (c. 1737) Hermitage Museum (Bayreuth)
Portrait of the Barbara Campanini aka “La Barbarina” (c. 1745)