Jean-Louis Voille

Posted Nov 27, 2008 at 00:29 CET in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.

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Sofia Vladimirovna Panina, 1791.

I don’t know anything about Jean-Louis Voille except that he appears to be French and seems to have painted mainly Russians. His paintings are lovely though, and you can see more after the cut.

Ekaterina Naryshkina, 1787.

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Woman in blue.

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Grand Duchess Yelena Pavlovna as a child, 1792.

Olga Zherebtsovabig.

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Maria Feodorovna, 1792.

Maria Feodorovna, 1790s.

3 comments on “Jean-Louis Voille”

Elisabeth, autempledesmodes.blogspot.com

Here is what I’ve found:
“Jean-Louis Voille was born in Paris in 1744; he was a student of François Hubert Drouais. From early 1770s Voille worked in Russia, approximately in 1780 he became the court painter of the heir to the throne, Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich (future Emperor Paul I). In the middle of the 1790s he returned to France: Catherine II offered all Frenchmen in Russia to renounce the French Revolution, and Voille refused to sign the oath of allegiance and left for Paris. He came back to St. Petersburg after Napoleon I usurped power and the French Republic started to become an Empire.
His portraits reveal soft delicacy and tact; strong passions do not disturb their peace of mind, it seems the painter does not see the dark sides in the characters of his sitters. ”