Antoine Bouzonnet-Stella

Antoine Bouzonnet-Stella (1634–1682) was a French painter and printmaker, a pupil and nephew of Jacques Stella.

Life

He was born at Lyons in 1634,^[1] the son of Étienne Bouzonnet, a goldsmith, and his wife, Madeleine Stella.^[2] He studied art in Paris under his uncle, Jacques Stella^[1] who, having achieved considerable success as a painter, had decided to set up a workshop to produce prints after his own designs. To staff it, Stella brought in his sister's children, Antoine, Claudine, Antoinette, and Francoise, all of whom moved from Lyon to live in his apartments in the Louvre.^[3]

In 1666 Bouzonnet-Stella was received as a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture for his picture of The Pythian Games. He died in Paris in 1682. There are several known etchings by him, including Moses defending the Daughters of Jethro, after Nicolas Poussin.^[1]

References

1. Bryan 1886–9
2. Jeffares, Neil. "STELLA, Claudine Bouzonnet-" (PDF). Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 (online edition).
3. Mulherron, Jamie (2008). "Claudine Bouzonnet, Jaques Stella, and the Pastorales". Print Quarterly. 25 (4): 293–307. JSTOR 41826919.

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "BOUZONNET, Antoine" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.