Jean-Baptiste Cariven
Decadent erotic and anticlerical painter
Trained with masters in Gaillac, then at the Beaux-arts de Toulouse, in Paris, Cariven shared and maintained during his life many friendly ties with Toulouse artists: André Roucolle, Charles Ponsin-Andarahy, Louis Cazottes... He would lead a career as a painter. art teacher. He will continue to produce quite singular painted and engraved works, placing himself clearly in the movement of decadentism, with a propensity for eroticism and anticlericalism which will characterize his productions, many of which have remained private.
Artworks by this artist (25 total)
- Leda and the Swan 1887
- The torture of the Marquise de Brinvilliers 1878
- Self-portrait with his wife, Amélie
- The Glasses (tale by Jean de la Fontaine) 1892
- Self-portrait of the artist painting in the cellar 1901
- Potiphar’s Wife Grabbing Joseph 1883
- Child lying on stomach
- Lot’s escape
- Apollo and Daphne
- Susanna and the Elders 1884
- Eve and Adam expelled from Paradise
- Nero trying poisons
- Oedipus and the Sphinx 1887
- Samson et Dalila 1892
- Child sitting asleep
- Fortune and Love 1893
- David returns, winner of Goliath 1862
- The torture of smoke (Saint Zoe of Rome) 1885
- Brunehilde’s death 1885
- Trick a witch