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Alexander Kucharsky

Alexander Kucharsky

Madame Barbier-Walbonne

Alexander Kucharsky

Monsieur Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803), writer

Alexander Kucharsky

Portrait of Marie Thérèse Charlotte, Madame Royale (1778-1851)

Alexander Kucharsky

Portrait of Ignacy Potocki

Alexander Kucharsky

Portrait of Ignacy Potocki (1750-1809)

Alexander Kucharsky

Portrait of lady in black hat

Alexander Kucharsky

Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France

Alexander Kucharsky

Portrait of Olympe de Gouges

Alexander Kucharsky

Queen Marie-Antoinette (1755–1793)

Alexander Kucharsky

Portrait of Louise d'Esparbès de Lussan (1764-1804), Countess of Polastron, lady of the palace of Queen Marie Antoinette

Alexander Kucharsky

Portrait of Marie Antoinette

Alexander Kucharsky

Marie Antoinette at the Temple Tower

Alexander Kucharsky

Madame Elisabeth (1764-1794) in the Temple prison

Alexander Kucharsky

Marie Antoinette in the prison Conciergerie

Alexander Kucharsky

Queen Marie Antoinette of France in the prison Temple

Alexander Kucharsky

Marie Antoinette in the Temple prison.

Alexander Kucharsky

Portrait of Marie Soulange Duperré, Madame Laclos

Alexander Kucharsky

Alexander Kucharsky

Alexander Kucharsky

Alexander Kucharsky

Alexander Kucharsky (18 March 1741 – 5 November 1819)[1] also Alexandre Kucharsky or Aleksander Kucharsky , was a Polish portrait painter who spent his adult life in France. He himself used the spelling Kucharsky,[2] but Kucharski is also often used. In the past, in France, the name has been given as Couaski.

Early life

Kucharsky was born in Warsaw. As a boy, he was a page to King Stanisław II Augustus, the last elected ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.[3] He trained first as an artist in Warsaw, in the studio of the famous painter Marcello Bacciarelli.[3] With a bursary from King Stanisław Augustus, he then travelled to Paris to work under Joseph-Marie Vien and Carle van Loo at the Académie Royale, from 1760 to 1769.


Work

The king of Poland wanted Kucharsky to train as a historical painter, but instead he became a portrait artist, thus losing the king's patronage. From 1776 to 1778, Kucharsky was in the service of the Princes de Condé.[3]

Kucharsky liked to paint half-length portraits in pastels or in oils, but he also worked in gouache and sometimes painted miniatures. His clients were mostly from the French and Polish aristocracy.[3] The latter had increased in numbers in France as a result of the alliance between King Louis XV and Marie Leszczyńska.[3]

After the departure from the French court of Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun in 1789, Kucharsky became painter to Queen Marie-Antoinette.[3] As well as painting her portrait and the royal children, he also painted Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe, the comte d'Artois, later King Charles X, the countess of Artois, and Catherine the Great of Russia.[3]

Kucharsky's best-known work today includes his portraits of the doomed French royal family, especially the future King Louis XVII. The final portrait, painted in 1793, of Marie Antoinette, was sold at auction by Piasa on May 21, 2003, and is attributed to Kucharsky.[4]

When signing his work, the artist used the spelling "Kucharsky".[2]


Later years

Throughout the years of the French Revolution, Kucharsky's allegiance remained with the ancien régime. In retirement he lived near Paris at Sainte-Périne, living on a pension granted by Louis XVIII of France. He died in Paris.


See also

List of Poles

Footnotes

Genealogical Notes and Anecdotes: L'oriflamme de St.-Denis at gennotes.150m.com (accessed 29 December 2007)
See signature at Marie Antoinette, miniature by Kucharsky, 1790
Le peintre KUCHARSKY at museelouisxvii.com (accessed 28 December 2007)
Portrait de Marie-Antoinette au temple at artnet.com (accessed 30 December 2007)

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