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    Published : 2026-06-19
    Vol. 74 No. 4 (2026)

    Jean Baptiste Gayot Dubuisson (1658–1730) – malarz i projektant kartonów do tapiserii króla Augusta II Sasa

    Agnieszka Bender

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0432-7436

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh26744.6

    Abstract

    This article is the first attempt at reconstructing the life of Jean Baptiste Gayot Dubuisson on a large scale, whilst also aiming to present an outline of the work of this somewhat forgotten artist. This painter of flowers – as he was and is most often referred to in the literature – is undoubtedly worth recalling, given his significant international oeuvre and numerous ties to Poland. The aim of this article is to collect and systematise the scattered information about this talented artist, who has not received a separate publication in any of the countries where he worked, aside from a few short entries in various dictionaries and mentions in articles. Organising the basic facts and data related to him posed considerable challenges from the outset, as the painter changed countries several times, his works and information about him are scattered across Europe, and his name has been spelled in a dozen different ways.

    Born and educated in France, he was a student of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer. As a young man, Dubuisson moved to Naples, where he worked from around 1696 to 1709. In 1710, his daughter married Antoine Pesne, a talented portrait painter. That same year, both painters and their entire extended family moved to Dresden, where the younger became a painter to the Prussian kings. Dubuisson worked in that city until 1717, after which he moved to Berlin, and then around 1724 to Warsaw, where he spent the last years of his life, died, and was buried. The artist left behind dozens of oil paintings; they are held primarily in museums in Italy, Germany, and Sweden, precisely and gently painted, yet they follow a common theme. Three tapestry cartoons, authored or co-authored by him, are known. These designs are characterised by a high artistic standard. Extant tapestries based on these cartoons include “Spiral Floral Columns” (two at the Czartoryski Princes’ Museum in Kraków), “Autumn” (the Mobilier National in Paris), and “Harvest Festival” (the GRASSI Museum of Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig).

    Keywords:

    painter, tapestry cartoon designer, Jean Baptiste Gayot Dubuisson, Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, Augustus II Sas, Antoine Pesne, Paris, Naples, Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw



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    Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
    © The Learned Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin & The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Humanities

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