Jean-Gaspard Heilmann

For other uses, see Heilmann.

Jean-Gaspard Heilmann^{[needs German and French IPA]} (c. 1718 – 27 September 1760) was an 18th-century French painter, author of popular landscapes, historical scenes and fine portraits.^[1] He was the first Mulhouse painter who enjoyed a certain notoriety in Paris.^[2]

Jean-Gaspard Heilmann
Autoportrait en costume d'apparat
Born	Jean-Gaspard Heilmann 1718 Mulhouse, France
Died	27 September 1760(1760-09-27) (aged 41–42)
Nationality	French
Occupation	Painter
Known for	First painter of king Louis XV

Biography

Born in Mulhouse, from a Mulhouse family documented since the 16th century,^[3] an orphan at a very young age, he was formed in Schaffhausen by the painter Hans Deggeller, then at Basel (Switzerland).

Noticed by the cardinal of Tencin,^[4] he followed him to Rome and executed many commissions for him. The French Ambassador to Rome took him to Paris in 1742.^[5] Heilmann lived there until his death and connected with the engraver Jean-Georges Wille and François Boucher, first painter of king Louis XV.

He died in Paris in 1760 at the age of 42.

Selected works

• Portrait de femme (oil), 1748, Musée Magnin in Dijon
• Portrait d'homme et son pendant Portrait de femme (1749), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
• Sous-bois (drawing), Musée Bonnat in Bayonne
• Autoportrait en costume d'atelier (oil), Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
• Autoportrait en costume d'apparat (oil), c. 1750, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
• Deux natures mortes, Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse