Joseph-Benoît Suvée, 1743-1807 : Un Artiste Entre Bruges, Rome Et Paris

A native of Bruges, Suvé left at 20 years to train in Paris in Jean-Jacques Bachelier's workshop. His first paintings were influenced by Vien, and very early asserted his talent as a religious painter. Settled in Rome from 1772 to 1178, he showed a keen interest in the antic sites. In 1779 he was named at the Académie royale before leaving again to Rome in 1801 at the direction of the Académie de France where he remained until his death.
This first monograph devoted to Suvée demonstrates the talent of the neoclassic artist and shows the richness and the diversity of his production. The catalogue of almost 550 paintings and drawings reveals an important number of unpublished works, most of them belonging to private collections in France and abroad.