Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine

Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine, 15 July 1745 – 23 February 1830

(in Polish: Jan Piotr Norblin)

Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine was a French-born painter, draughtsman, engraver, drawing artist and caricaturist. From 1774 to 1804 he resided in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where he obtained citizenship.

He is considered one of the most important painters of the Polish Enlightenment. His success in Poland was enormous, with great commissions from the finest families, especially the Czartoryskis for whom he worked as a court painter and tutor to their children. He did not return to Paris until early in the nineteenth century. His style showed the influence of Antoine Watteau, and combined the Rococo tradition of charming fêtes galantes and fêtes champêtres with a panorama of daily life and current political events, captured with journalistic accuracy.

Bathing in the Park, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1785

An Excursion to the Lake, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1785

Self-portrait, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1778

Przemysł Asked to Become the King of the Czech Country, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1777

Market Day in the Praga District, Warsaw, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1791

Hanging of Traitors at Warsaw’s Old Town Market, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1794

Surgery, Jean-Pierre Norblin

An Assembly under the Statue of Diana, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1779

Festivities in the Park, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1785

Fête Galante, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1785

Breakfast in the Park, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1785

Self-portrait, Jean-Pierre Norblin

Polish Nobleman, Jean-Pierre Norblin

Storming of the Russian Embassy, Warsaw Uprising, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1794

Hanging of Traitors at Warsaw’s Old Town Market Square, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1794

Warsaw Uprising, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1794

Warsaw Uprising, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, Jean-Pierre Norblin, 1794