Lot n° 197
Estimation :
1000 - 1200
EUR
Philippe-Louis PARIZEAU (Paris 1740-1801) - Lot 197
Philippe-Louis PARIZEAU (Paris 1740-1801)
Turkish janissaries, drunk, afraid to find someone in a well.
Pen and black ink, brown wash, watercolour and gouache,
Signed, above the lintel of the guardhouse on the right: Ph. L. Parizeau 1774 N°21.
44 x 60 cm.
Stitches, sheet glued by the margins on the mounting.
Parizeau's artistic career is intimately linked to that of the engraver Jean-Georges Wille (1715-1808), whose apprentice he was in 1766. The Journal de Wille gives information on their complicity and the temperament of his pupil: cheerful, good-natured, but impatient, we know that he regularly abandoned the burin for the exercise of drawing, which he enhanced with wash, watercolour and gouache.
Close to the Germans in Wille's entourage (Tischein, Baader, J.G. von Müller, etc.), he was a member of the "Wille's" family.), a friend of Le Prince, whose "russeries" he loved,
Parizeau, like many of his generation, liked to recall his literary erudition by interpreting little-known episodes of ancient history: "Oza struck with death"; "Homage Albinius pays to the Vestals fleeing the flames of Rome"; "Thomiris who plunges Cyrus' head into a vase full of blood"; "Olinde and Sophronia"; "Sabinus brought before Vespasian"; "Argie led to the Temple by his two sons", etc.
Accustomed to the Comédie-Française, Parizeau certainly drew the subject of this drawing from the numerous plays or operas with orientalizing subjects that punctuated the French 18th century, in the wake of the Thousand and One Nights (Galland, 1717), the Persian Letters (Montesquieu, 1721), the Pilgrims of Mecca (Lesage & d'Orneval, 1726), the Generous Turk in Les Indes Galantes (Rameau, 1735), etc.
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