Jakob Matthias Schmutzer
Master of expressive sanguine portrait studies
Jakob Matthias Schmutzer trained first in Vienna and later in Paris with Johann Georg Wille. The drawing technique used with the sanguine pencil, also known as the brown pencil, is likely to have been taken over directly from Wille by Schmutzer. The latter was friends with Jean-Baptiste Greuze, who was eight years his senior, and who in turn may have inspired Schmutzer to paint this genre. More than a real portrait, these drawings, which were executed in large numbers by Schmutzer, are expression studies of the kind taught in France following Charles Le Brun and his theoretical treatise Conférence sur l'expression génerale et particulière published in 1698. The disciplined drawing technique is reminiscent of the methodology of copperplate engraving - Schmutzer had already been trained as a copperplate engraver in his early days in Vienna.
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- Johann Georg Wille Master
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Artworks by this artist
- Head of Bearded Old Man 1804
- Still Life; Armor, Sword, Snare Drum 1765[-]1810
- A Young Man with Flowing Hair 1777
- Porträt eines jungen Mädchens 1751
- Head of Bearded Old Man 1805
- Profile of a Bearded Old Man Looking Right 1765[-]1810
- Landscape with a ruin near Mödling 1796
- Reclining Male Nude 1765[-]1810
- Head of a Young Man Looking Right 1774
- Landscape near Mödling with figures 1795
- Head of a Woman with a Veil 1782
- Head of a Youth with Open Mouth 1765[-]1810
- Partie in den Wiener Praterauen ca. 1790
- Two Male Heads in Profile to Right 1765[-]1810
- Reclining Male Nude, as Wind God on Clouds 1765[-]1810
- Seated Male Nude Resting on a Stick 1765–1810
- Standing Man in Exotic Dress 1765[-]1810
- Head of a Man 1765[-]1810
- Landscape near Mödling 1796
- Head of a Man with a Moustache Looking Left 1765[-]1810