Jean Joseph Vaudechamp
{{short description|French painter}}
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| birth_date = December 20, 1790
| birth_place = Rambervillers, France
| death_date = 1866
| death_place = Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
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| notable_works = Antoine Jacques Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville (portrait)
Portrait of Two Children
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Jean Joseph Vaudechamp (1790–1866) was a French painter born in Rambervillers, Vosges.{{cite book|author=William Keyse Rudolph|title=Jean Joseph Vaudechamp (1790-1864) in France and Louisiana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0xmCNwAACAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Bryn Mawr College}} He was a pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.
New Orleans
File:Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp - Portrait of Two Children.jpg]]
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The market in Paris was competitive, so in the winter of 1831–32, he went to try his fortunes in New Orleans, Louisiana.{{cite web|url=http://www.hnoc.org/publications/books-Vaudechamp.html |title=Vaudechamp in New Orleans |work=Historic New Orleans Collection |accessdate=2014-11-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225051729/http://www.hnoc.org/publications/books-Vaudechamp.html |archivedate=2011-02-25 }} The Louisiana Creole people identified with French culture and selected Vaudechamp to paint portraits for them. Over the next ten years he spent winters in New Orleans, and was a leading portrait painter in the region. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1866.
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- [http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/painting/portrait.htm Louisiana State Museum]
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Category:People from Vosges (department)
Category:19th-century French painters