Artist: Pierre-adrien Paris (1745 - 1819)
Nationality: French
Movement: Neoclassicism
Media: Architecture,Painting
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Biography:
Pierre-Adrien Paris’s father was the official architect and topographer for the court of the prince-bishop of Basel. He moved to Paris in 1760 to study under an architect. In 1769, he moved to Rome as the tutor of his teacher’s son and attended the Academie de France. He then traveled throughout Italy, taking interest in the antiquities in Pompeii, Paestum, Herculaneum, among other cities. Paris returned to France with a portfolio of architectural drawings that helped him win employment. In 1778, Louis XVI appointed him dessinateur and gave him the job of decorating court events, theater, and funerals. He also designed state sets for the Paris Opera. Paris joined the Academie Royale in 1780 and later was the interim director of the Academie de France in Rome under Napoleon. In the last two years of his life, Paris spent his time cataloguing his collection of paintings and antiquities.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Adrien Pierre Francois Godefroy, Le Retour au Hameau, 18th - 19th century
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Adrien Pierre Francois Godefroy, Guinea Hens, 18th - 19th century
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Adrien Pierre Francois Godefroy, La Nature Couronnant Hippocrate, 18th - 19th century
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Vases, Furniture, & Objects
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Adrien Guignet, [Man standing beside wall], 1847
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, A Hunting Party, 1653
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, Les chevres, 17th century
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, A cow grazing, 17th century
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Adrien Didier, Portrait of J-Paul Laurens, 1876
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, Les chiens, 17th century
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, La Vacher et le Taureau, 1659
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, La vache couchee, 1657
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, Le Cheval, 17th century
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, Le veau, 17th century
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Jacob Gole, Adrien van Ostade, 17th - 18th century
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, A calf in the pasture, 17th century
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Adrien Didier, Mariano Fortuny, 19th - 20th century
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Adrien Didier, Lady Godiva, 19th - 20th century
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, Les Trois Vaches, 17th century
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Adrien Didier, Mariano Fortuny, 19th - 20th century
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, Les Trois Boeufs, 17th century
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, Le boeuf dans l"eau, 17th century
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Pierre Francois Tardieu, Le Jugement de Paris, 1750
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Adrien Didier, Young woman of Flanders, 19th - 20th century
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Adrien Didier, Jean Paul Laurens, 19th - 20th century
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Adrian van de Velde or Adrien, Les deux vaches et le mouton, 17th century
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Adrien Tournachon (Nadar jeune), Gabriel-Alexandre Decamps, circa 1855 - 1860
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Jules Janin
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Adrien Manglard, Landscape with arched stone bridge over a river, 17th - 18th century
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Charles Francois Adrien Macret, Voltaire received by Henri IV at the Champs Elysees, 18th century
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Pierre Bonnard, Coin de rue vue d"en haut (Street Corner Seen from Above) from the series, Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris (Several Views of Life in Paris), 1899
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Robert Nanteuil, Portrait of Pierre Lallemant, Chancelier de l"Universitie de Paris, 1700
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Multiple Artists, Dictionnaire des graveursäby Pierre-FranÁois Basan (Paris: the authorä, 1789), vol. 1, 1789
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Multiple Artists, Dictionnaire des graveursäby Pierre-FranÁois Basan (Paris: the authorä, 1789), vol. 2, 1789
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Self-portrait with Pierre de la Roche Robert Levrac Tournières (French, 1668-1752)Oil on wood; 17 x
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Pierre Drevet, Jean-Martin Mitantier, clerk of the city hall of Paris, 17th - 18th century
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Multiple Artists, Dictionnaire des graveurs by Pierre-FranÁois Basan and H.L. Basan (Paris: J. J. Blaise, 1809), vol. 1, 1809
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Multiple Artists, Dictionnaire des graveurs by Pierre-FranÁois Basan and H.L. Basan (Paris: J. J. Blaise, 1809), vol. 2, 1809
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Pierre Drevet, Jean-Martin Mitantier, clerk of the city hall of Paris, 17th - 18th century
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Pierre Auguste Renoir - The Judgement of Paris 1915 bronze Cleveland Museum of Art French

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Musee d'Orsay: Photographs of the Paris Commune
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En Plein Air: Monet 2000 Excursion
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Hayward Gallery: BRASSAI: The Soul of Paris
'When you meet the man you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes’'
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Lovers in a Small Cafe near the Place d'Italie
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Mona Bismarck Foundation: Works by Massimo Campigli : 1922 - 1969
This exhibition proposes a significant retrospective of the italian artisi whose importance is recognized worlwide. Their are 37 works executed between 1922 and 1969. The selected paintings come from important private collections, from the Mus...
le Genie de la Bastille Open Studios: Americains in Paris
Le Génie de la Bastille began a program of public exhibitions in artist studios in 1984, followed by a series of international cultural exchanges with artists from Europe, Japan, Chile, Korea, and Algeria. In its first collaboration with the U.S.,...
Fondation Dina Vierny - Muse Maillol: Keith Haring: Made in France
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Van Gogh Museum: Vincent van Gogh Drawings

Van Gogh’s depictions of city life in Antwerp and Paris range from quick sketches jotted down in the street to detailed sheets of coloured chalk or watercolour completed at home. Most of his Parisian views are of his immediate surroundings, incl...
Iziko-SA National Gallery: Gerard Sekoto - From the Paris Studio
In 2000, the Gallery received a donation of over 2000 items from Sekoto's Paris studio and these included paintings, drawings and prints as well as memorabilia and photographs of an artist considered to be the pioneer of urban black art and soc...
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris: Robert Delaunay: 1906 - 1914
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FIAC: FIAC: International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art in Europe
It is together with the active participation of its professional and institutionel partners and a real desire to create a synergy with the other cultural events and institutions in Paris that this new ...
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto: Chefs - d'Oeuvre du Misee de l'Orangerie
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Frick Art and Historical Center: Post-Impressionist Prints: Paris in the 1890s
Late 19th-century Parisian painters experimented freely with new developments in printmaking and worked closely with skillful printmakers and publishers to produce some of the ...
National Academy of Professional Plein air Painters: Atelier Monet: Summer Workshop 2001 in La Roche-Guyon (Paris)
La Roche Guyon is located 65 km west of Paris and 5 kilometres from Giverny. You will be staying in one of two Chambre d'hotes Normande in Giverny. Each of the five rooms has its own shower. The Impressionists were the painters of ligh...
International Dance Council: GLOBAL DANCE DIRECTORY
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: GERMAINE KRULL: Photographer of Modernity
Organized by the Folkwang Museum in Germany, the retrospective includes work from her early career in Munich and Berlin, abstract industrial imagery from Amsterdam and Paris, photojournalism produced for magazines in Paris in the...
Jewish Museum: Paris in New York: French Jewish Artists in Private Collections
The works in this exhibition are from private collections, supplemented with examples from The Jewish Museum’s collection. The collectors of these works share both an admiration for their beauty and an abidi...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: L’Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918–1925
The basis of the Purist movement is the work made between 1918 and 1925 by Purism's founders and leading proponents, Ozenfant and Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), and the work of 1920–25 by their closest colleague, Fernand Léger. Purism e...
Metropolitan Museum: Painters in Paris: 1895–1950
Painters in Paris: 1895–1950, an exhibition of more than 100 paintings by many of the 20th ...
Espace Cardin: Paris-Pekin Exhibition
This exhibition, achieved through private funding, fills a void in the French art scene: to date, there has been no exhibition on such a large scale seen in France. The range and quality of the artworks will ensure this project to be the out...
J. Paul Getty Center: The Man in the Street: Eugene Atget in Paris
Drawn entirely from the Getty Museum collection, the exhibition includes more than 80 of Atget's images captured during his self-devised and eccentric photographic campaign, which documented as...
Tate Modern: MatissePicasso
Through a series of over thirty groupings of paintings and sculpture, this major exhibition gives you the opportunity to compare and contrast Matisse's expressive use of colour and line alongside Picasso's stylistic virtuos...
Museum Jan van der Togt: Sam Francis
Sam Francis was a citizen of the world who lived for art. American by birth, he has spend a large part of his live in Europe (Paris and Bern), Tokyo and New York. Some of his paintings have been partly created in Paris, worked on in New York, and ...
Fundacao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Fenosa and His Friend Picasso
Given the close friendship between these three artists, the Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva Foundation decided to, and for the first time, bring the work of Apel.les Fenosa to Portugal. The ties between Vieira, Arpad and Apel.les Fenosa were extr...
Speed Art Museum: Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle
Along with Mary Cassatt, Morisot was the most well-known and successful female Impressionist painter and one of the most important woman artists of the nineteenth century. She was the first woman to join the artistic circle of the Impressionists...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 30 Years of FIAC: Exhibitions, Performances and Installations
FIAC 2003 will welcome 70,000 visitors, including collectors, curators, museum professionals and journalists, providing them with an international perspective on the world’s best modern and contemporary art. With 175 exhibiting galleries based in...
Columbia Museum of Art: From Fauvism to Impressionism: Albert Marquet at the Pompidou
Schooled under Gustav Moreau at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs alongside his friend Henri Matisse, Marquet was considered at the forefront of artistic achievement in France in his day. Bonds of friendship associated him with Matisse as well as Raou...
Musee d'Orsay: Still lives by Manet
In spite of their simplicity, his compositions were subtly elaborate, whether they be a lemon, an asparagus, violets, peonies... Some of these ...
Museum of Modern Art: Matisse Picasso
Years in the making, this exhibition is the result of a unique collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Musée Picasso and Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. It brings together masterpieces ...
roARatorio: Call for Artists: Paris/Berlin International Meetings
A complete festival's presentation is available on the web site: http://art-action.org THE CALL FOR ENTRIES is open for film cycles, 35mm, 16mm, super 8, and video, without any restriction of length or type ...
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios: Perfect Day: Stefan Nikolaev
The presence of time as a theme in the work is made clear in Nikolaev's large wall text for Temple Bar Gallery, in which time is marked out in a short narrative by the  inclusion of digital clocks at key intervals.  His recurring focus on the ever...

Further Artwork and Information:

Pierre-Adrien Pâris (Getty Museum)
Grove Art Online
Pierre Adrien ParisArt Images
artnet.com: Resource Library: Pâris, Pierre-Adrien
Find in a Library: Collection Pierre-Adrien Pris, Besanon. [Catalogue.
GRAILLON, Pierre-Adrien
Vases, Furniture, & Objects (Getty Museum)
Pierre-Adrien Pâris: Vases, Furniture, and Objects Discovered at Herculaneum
Hôtel Depont des Granges
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