Moïse Jacobber

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Floral Still-life with Small Insects

Moïse Jacobber, born Jacob Ber (6 March 1786, in Blieskastel – 17 July 1863, in Paris) was a German-born French painter who worked at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. He specialized in painting flowers.

Life and works[edit]

He studied with Gérard van Spaendonck. From 1823 to 1835, he was a floral painter at the porcelain manufactory in Sèvres. He depicted flowers and fruits in several media, including oils, watercolors and porcelain. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon from 1822 to 1855; also holding exhibitions in Lille, Douai, Cambrai and London. He signed his works with a variation of his original name, "Jacob-Ber". Some of his porcelain work was based on paintings by Spaendonck and Jan van Huysum.

Among his major works were two large vases in Sèvres porcelain, which were a gift from King Louis Philippe to Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden in 1833.[1]

Most of his work may be seen at the Cité de la céramique, a museum in Sèvres. Notable oil paintings are in the Louvre and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.

His daughter, Élisabeth Sidonie Jaccober (married name Worms),[2] also worked as a floral painter in Sèvres from 1835 to 1839 and, in 1840, obtained a lithographic patent to print her own designs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Thieme-Becker
  2. ^ "JACOBBER, épouse WORMS *Élisabeth, Sidonie dans le "Dictionnaire des imprimeurs-lithographes du XIXème siècle".

Further reading[edit]

  • Xavier Roger Marie Chavagnac and Gaston Antoine de Grollier, Histoire des manufactures françaises de porcelaine, A. Picard et fils, 1906 Online @ Smithsonian Libraries
  • Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, La manufacture de porcelaine de Sèvres, Librairie Renouard, 1908 Online @ Smithsonian Libraries
  • Diederik Bakhuÿs and Adeline Collange, Moïse Jacobber, Œuvres provenant du don de Cornélia Scheffer, 1897 (exhibition catalog), Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, 2007 ISBN 2-901431-37-2

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