Artist: Robert-joseph Auguste (1723 - 1805)
Nationality: French
Movement: Neoclassicism
Media: Gold and Silversmith
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Biography:
Robert-Joseph Auguste worked for several goldsmiths in his youth, but was never officially apprenticed. He was excused from this guild prerequisite because he produced work for the king. His unique neoclassical style granted him many commissions from royalty and aristocracy in France and internationally. Louis XVI of France preferred Auguste’s work over any other goldsmith and gave him many commissions to produce, including his own crown for his coronation. As Auguste’s work became increasingly popular and fashionable in the late 1700’s, he gained even more prominent clients such as Madame de Pompadour, Catherine II of Russia, and the Count de Creutz.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Robert Nanteuil, Portrait of Henri-Auguste, Comte de Brienne, 1660
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Paul Adolphe Rajon , Portrait of Joseph Auguste Felix Braquemond, 19th century
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Paul Adolphe Rajon , Portrait of Joseph Auguste Felix Braquemond, 19th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Pair of Candelabra
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Sir Robert Strange, Joseph and the Piliphars Wife, 18th century
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Auguste Raffet, Mounted General, 19th century
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Portrait of Baron Joseph Vialetes de Mortarieu 1806 Oil on Canvas Norton Simon Museum French
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Joseph Lee, Oak Knoll, Napa (Country Home of Robert B. Woodward), circa 1880
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Charles Joseph Travies De Villers, Mayeux et Robert Macaire - Que diable: cher Mayeux, 19th century
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Charles Joseph Travies De Villers, Mayeux et Robert Macaire - Oui, Charmante j"ai le dos voutÈ, 19th century
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Robert Henri - Kevin (Joseph Gallagher) c. 1928 oil on canvas High Museum of Art
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Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775), ca. 1810 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867)Oil on canvas; 29 5/8 x
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Charles Joseph Travies De Villers, Mayeux et Robert Macaire - Entrevue de deux grands hommes, 19th century
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Joseph Cornell, American, 1903-1972 Untitled 1970 Assemblage: burned paper, ink, graphite, watercolor, gouache on mat
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Joseph Cornell, American, 1903-1972 Untitled (Nude) 1961 Assemblage: photograph, glass, paper, mounted to solid support;
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Anonymous, Joseph MÈrcy, circa 1870
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Robert Salmon, English, 1775-1845 or after South Sea Whale Fishing I 1831 Oil on panel
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Two Young Girls at the Piano, 1892 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)Oil on canvas; 45 3/4
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L.P., Photograph of Le Petit St. Jean (Little St.John) - by the sculptor Jean Auguste Dampt (French, 1853-1946), from the MusÈe du LuxembourgA056633, circa 1870
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Bisson Frères, French, active in 1841-1864 Inclusive of Auguste-Rosalie Bisson, French, 1826-1900 Inclusive of Louis-Auguste
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Robert Delaunay, Saint Severin, 1909
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Robert Hooke, Scheme XXIV: Head of a Drone Fly, in the book, Micrographia: or some physiological Descriptions of minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses, (London: Joseph Martyn and James Allestry), 1665
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Auguste Del‚tre, One from a Series of eight very small landscape etchings with a title: Eaux-Fortes par Auguste Delatre & Charle (sic) Meryon, Paris, 1856, 1856
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Auguste Del‚tre, One from a Series of eight very small landscape etchings with a title: Eaux-Fortes par Auguste Delatre & Charle (sic) Meryon, Paris, 1856, 1856
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Auguste Del‚tre, One from a Series of eight very small landscape etchings with a title: Eaux-Fortes par Auguste Delatre & Charle (sic) Meryon, Paris, 1856, 1856
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Auguste Del‚tre, One from a Series of eight very small landscape etchings with a title: Eaux-Fortes par Auguste Delatre & Charle (sic) Meryon, Paris, 1856, 1856
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Auguste Del‚tre, One from a Series of eight very small landscape etchings with a title: Eaux-Fortes par Auguste Delatre & Charle (sic) Meryon, Paris, 1856, 1856
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Auguste Del‚tre, One from a Series of eight very small landscape etchings with a title: Eaux-Fortes par Auguste Delatre & Charle (sic) Meryon, Paris, 1856, 1856
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Auguste Del‚tre, One from a Series of eight very small landscape etchings with a title: Eaux-Fortes par Auguste Delatre & Charle (sic) Meryon, Paris, 1856, 1856
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Auguste Del‚tre, One from a Series of eight very small landscape etchings with a title: Eaux-Fortes par Auguste Delatre & Charle (sic) Meryon, Paris, 1856, 1856
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Auguste Del‚tre, One from a Series of eight very small landscape etchings with a title: Eaux-Fortes par Auguste Delatre & Charle (sic) Meryon, Paris, 1856, 1856
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Princesse de Broglie, 1851-1853 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867)Oil on canvas; 47 3/4 x 35 3/4
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Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix - Louis-Auguste Schwiter 1826-1830 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London French
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John Sloan, Portrait of Robert Henri, 1902
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Joseph Uhl, Die Sorge, from Zeitschrift fur Bildende Kunst, circa 1895
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Auguste Rodin, Le Printemps, 1883
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Auguste Bry, Portrait of Raffet, 1839
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Auguste Rodin, La Ronde, 1883
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EugËne-FranÁois-Marie-Joseph DevÈria, Self-Portrait, circa 1840
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Auguste Vacquerie, Victor Hugo, 1853

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Auguste Rodin: Sculptor
This exhibition of bronzes by Rodin includes some of his best-known works including The Man with the Broken Nose and figures from his greatest ensemble, The Gates of Hell. Many of the works are on loan to the Museum from the collections of t...
High Museum: A Passion for Renoir: Five Great Paintings from the Clark Art Institute
Renoir’s distinctive brushwork is particularly exquisite in his depictions of women, such as the elegant figures in At the Concert, a major work from Renoir’s early career. A Passion for Renoir represents a special collaboration between the High M...
Palazzo Isolani - Arte Communications: New Exhibition of Auguste Rodin
The exhibition will host the most significant original plasters, through which Rodin recorded his genius. Rodin modeled his sculptures first in clay, which disintegrates over time, recording important stages of the composition and finished form by...
Philbrook Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
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Palazzo delle Prigioni Nuove - Auguste Rodin Foundation: Rodin Plaster & Bronzes
The exhibition, organized by Arte Communications, will exhibit Rodin's most significant works in plaster, in which Rodin best expressed his genius. Rodin modeled his sculptures first in clay, which disintegrates over time, making then a negative m...
Church St. Stae, Grand Canal Venice : Auguste Rodin Sculpture Exhibition
The Rodin exhibition will have its premiere in Venice before it is launched into an international context and it will include some of the most significant authentic plaster masterpieces. The plaster was the material in which Rodin recorded ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Conserving the Past for the Future
Highlights of this show of about 65 works include the museums over-life-size Thinker by Auguste Rodin, permanently damaged by a bomb blast in 1970. On view here for the first time in more than 20 years will be a ...
National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
Milwaukee Art Museum: Nothing But Nudes: Selections from the Permanent Collection
he exhibition Nothing But Nudes: Selections from the Permanent Collection reveals not only the many roles of the nude in art but also the depth of the museum's holdings. Including works from all media painting and sculpture, w...
North Carolina Museum of Art: Rodin: Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection and additional works
The exhibition features bronze sculptures selected from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection, the world's foremost private collection of Rodin's...
Louvre Museum: Ingres' Cartoons in Stained-Glass for the Louvre Collections
It was in the latter’s honour that the Chapelle Saint-Ferdinand des Ternes was built, on the ...
Queensland Art Gallery: Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany
In the late nineteenth century these artists were all drawn to Belle-Île, off the coast of Brittany, France, by their desire to capture on canvas the island’s dramatic, storm-tossed coastline...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing
Timeless Beauty examines the origins, development, and ultimate dissolution of the drawing style of extreme linearity favored by artists working in the Neoclassical mode. Beginning in the 1750’s and lasting into the early decades of the 1800’s, arti...
Dahesh Museum of Art: Facing the Other: Charles Cordier, Ethnographic Sculptor
Although greatly admired by many artists during his lifetime, including Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917), throughout his career Cordier was forced to defend not only his subjects, but also his materials. Setting aside the standard white marble, Cordi...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture
These are among the finest examples of recent figurative sculpture by very important artists from around the world, said Albright-Knox Project Curator Holly E. Hughes. We are pleased to be able to bring this caliber of contemporary sculpture to...
Museum of Fine Art Houston: The Public Portrait: Photographs by Edward Steichen, Richard Avedon, and Irving Penn
American photographers Edward Steichen (1879 -- 1973), Richard Avedon (born 1923), and Irving Penn (born 1917) are among the ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: The Draftsman's Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland
The Draftsman's Art spans the 15th to the 19th centuries with drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Peter Paul Rubens, François Boucher, William ...
Museum of Fine Art, Houston: Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections
Faces of Impressionism spans more than 50 years of art history and includes 60 works of probing individual and group portraits, figures in landscape settings, and self-portraits. ...
KunstenFESTIVALdesArts: International Performing Arts Festival
The kunstenFESTIVALdesArts – first staged in May 1994 by Frie Leysen, founder of Antwerp’s De Singel – is now considered as one of the great festivals in Europe, on a par with Festival d'Avignon, Festival ...
Queensland Art Gallery: Transformations: A Century of Sculpture
The exhibition opens with two works by Auguste Rodin, a great influence on 20th century sculpture. Smaller bronzes from late 19th/early 20th century explore the figure as an allegory and are presented with reference to t...
Baltimore Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting
The Triumph of French Painting features more than thirty celebrated artists, including Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, van Gogh, Picasso, an...
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens: RODIN’S EXTRAORDINARY MONUMENT TO VICTOR HUGO
Through Rodin’s early marble busts, plaster figures, and preliminary studies, visitors will be able to trace the master’s thought process as he conceived the final monument. Bringing all twenty-two pieces together allows the publ...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Visions, Fragments, and Impressions: French Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Bronzes from the Collection of Herbert and Carol Diamond
Beginning with the period of the Revolution (1789) and continuing throughout the nineteenth century, many French artists and sculptors were in the vanguard of political and social change. The public and the press, as well as artists and critics...
Ketterer Kunst: 16 Works from the Herbert and Natalie Kirshner Collection, New York
Gabriele Münter's Kandinsky und Erma Bossi am Tisch was made in 1909, like two other oil paintings with the same subject, shortly after the artist bought her house in Murnau. It shows the interior of the living room in the so-called Russenhaus – a...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: To Delight the Eye: French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap
Organized by Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Jeffrey E. Horvitz Research Curator in the Department of Drawings. Funding has been provided by the Jeffrey E. Horvitz Foundation, David Leventhal, and Howard Lepow. The Harvard University Art Museums are amo...
Dayton Art Institute: RODIN: Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection
At the height of his career, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was considered to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo. His genius lay in his ability to liberate both his subject matter and his style from 19th century artistic conventions through ...
Van Gogh Museum: Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1869-1890
Art history generally ... has neglected the hand. ... The aim of this exhibition is to reopen the question of manual dexterity and to reconsider the physical intelligence of artists by directly confronting paintings that are, in themse...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum, stated: For six months out of each year, this extraordinary loan signi...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Impressionist Masterworks from the National Gallery of Canada
The first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 exploded like a bombshell in the complacent world of French academic art. The young artists who participated in this show and the seven exhibitions that followed, had abandoned historical subje...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Queensland Art Gallery Director, Mr Doug Hall said The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection is a celebration of the Gallery's proud history of touring the State's col...

Further Artwork and Information:

Robert-Joseph Auguste Online
Robert-Joseph Auguste (Getty Museum)
Robert-Joseph Auguste
Auguste, Robert Joseph (um 1736-1805 Paris) - Schmucklexikon von Prof. Leopold Rössler
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Auguste, Henri (1759-1816 Paris) - Schmucklexikon von Prof. Leopold Rössler
Pair of Candelabra (Getty Museum)
Argenterie orfevrerie
Edme-Pierre Balzac
artnet.com: Resource Library: Auguste

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