Étienne Bouhot

(Bard-lès Epoisses 1780-1862 Semur-en Axois)

The workshop of goldsmith Jean-Baptiste Claude Odiot
(born 1763, active 1785-1826) rue L'Évêque, Butte Saint-Roch

Signed bottom right on the facade: Bouhot
Oil on canvas, dimensions: 57.5 x 81.5 cm


As a pupil of Pierre Prévost the painter, Bouhot had his first exhibition in the Salon in 1808. In 1810, his works received several accolades. Specialised in vedutes of Paris, Bouhot shows us the outer facade of the workshop of Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot the famous goldsmith to the court of Emperor Napoleon I. The workshop was initially located in the rue Saint-Honoré and rue de l'Échelle, before being moved to the rue L'Évêque, the so-called Quartier du Palais-Royal (the street no longer exists).

The painting is impressive for its precise topographical reproduction of the Parisian street, and for the extreme delicacy with which the incident light falling on the grand facades of the houses is executed. With this 1822 view of his workshop building, Odiot, a highly successful goldsmith, had a unique historical document created for posterity.


Exhibition

  • Salon de Paris 1822, No. 146


References

  • “Les grands orfèvres de Louis XIII à Charles X”, in: Connaissance des Arts, hors-série Grands artisans d'autrefois, Paris 1965
  • J.M Pinçon/O. Gaube du Gers, Odiot, l'orfèvre, Paris 1990, ill. p. 123.

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