-
X
Forgot Password

Forgot Password?
(Enter your email below.)


Cancel

Not a member?
Create your account today!

Search from over 100,000 items available at auction now


Advanced
Search
Learn how to bid
  • Add this artist to my Invaluable Auction Search Alerts

Victor Schnetz (1787-1870)

Aliases: Jean Victor Schnetz; Jean Viktor Schnetz

Professions: Historical-scenes painter; Genre Painter; Portrait painter; Lithographer

  • Click to See Larger Size Click to See Lot Detail
    A Louis-Philippe porcelain plaque within an ebonised frame

    A Louis-Philippe porcelain plaque within an ebonised frame

  • Click to See Larger Size Click to See Lot Detail
    Victor Schnetz. (1787-1870) École française  

    Victor Schnetz. (1787-1870) École française  

  • Click to See Larger Size Click to See Lot Detail
    Jean Victor SCHNETZ Versailles, 1787 - Paris, 1870 La bataille de Rocroy Lavis et rehaut de blanc signé 'V Schnetz' en bas à droite

    Jean Victor SCHNETZ Versailles, 1787 - Paris, 1870 La bataille de Rocroy Lavis et rehaut de blanc signé 'V Schnetz' en bas à droite

  • Click to See Larger Size Click to See Lot Detail
    Jean-Victor Schnetz (1787-1870)

    Jean-Victor Schnetz (1787-1870)

Victor Schnetz Biography

(b Versailles, 14 April 1787; d Paris, 16 March 1870). French painter and printmaker. He trained first under Jacques-Louis David and then under Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Antoine-Jean Gros and François Gérard. He made his début at the Salon in 1808 and exhibited there until 1867. It was in 1819 however that he established his reputation by winning the gold medal for history painting. The following year he exhibited one of his most important paintings, A Gypsy Predicting the Future of Sixte-Quinte (1820; untraced). After this there followed a number of paintings on historical and religious subjects such as General Condé at the Battle of Rocroy (1824; Versailles, Château), Eudes, Comte de Paris, Raising the Siege of Paris in 886 (1837; Versailles, Château) and Procession of Crusaders around Jerusalem the Day Before the Taking of the Town, 14 July 1099 (1841; Versailles, Château). In all these works he took subjects of the type favoured by the Romantics and enhanced their dramatic potential by the dominant use of reds and yellows. The paintings had however an underlying coolness resulting from his Neo-classical training under David, and their main importance lies in this bridging of the two schools of Romanticism and Neo-classicism.

Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online

Back to the Top

Victor Schnetz Related Content

  • Auction Houses

    Genres/Artists

Back to the Top

Victor Schnetz Sold at AuctionView all Victor Schnetz Sold at Auction

Back to the Top

Need Full Access to Our Artist Database?

Log in or subscribe for access to: artist alerts, price estimate, auction house name, auction title, location & date, and more...

Subscribe Now

Answer your questions about your favourite artist's works and their value or bid online for your chance to own a piece by Victor Schnetz. Invaluable's Victor Schnetz artist profile page includes: Victor Schnetz biographical information, work by Victor Schnetz available at auction now, and prices realised for Victor Schnetz recently sold at auction.

  • Sign Up For Free Email Updates

Thank you!
Why not register for a
FREE account today?