Jacques-antoine Vallin (1760-1835) - Pan In Love For Syrinx Oil On Canvas

Jacques-Antoine Vallin (1760-1835) - Pan in love for Syrinx oil on canvas circa 1790-1810

Our painting has been appraised by the Cabinet René Millet Expertise, the certificate will be given to the buyer.

Eminent French painter of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, present in many prestigious museums: The Louvre, Marmottant, the Petit Palais, The National Gallery, Jacques-Antoine Vallin proposes in this beautiful painting his version of the Myth of Pan and Syrinx.

Pan, whose ugliness bothered the gods, is sent by them to be a country god, he falls in love with Syrinx whom he tries to conquer. The sisters of Syrinx will transform her into reeds, Pan believing to have captured her realizes that he only holds reeds in his arms. He sighs, and the reed emits a melodious sound. By juxtaposing reeds of different sizes, he made an instrument that he named after the nymph, Syrinx, or Pan's flute.

In a country landscape bathed in a silky light, Pan kneels and tries to conquer Syrinx, a fairy who seems to want to dissuade him.
Many qualities in this superb painting by Jacques-Antoine Vallin, although unsigned by René Millet, the expert says it's in the painter's hand and painted towards the end of the 18th century.

Sizes unframed:   H 24.01 Inches. - W 19.29 Inches.
Sizes with frame:  H 33.46 Inches. - W 28.74 Inches.

In very fine condition, our painting has been professionally cleaned, it is served by a beautiful carved and gilded wooden frame whose cartouche is not in the right name.

Biography:

Jacques-Antoine Vallin was a French painter born in 1760 and died in Paris on November 28, 1835.

Jacques-Antoine Vallin was the son of a Parisian sculptor and chiseler, who lived on the Quai de la Mégisserie.
At the age of fifteen, he entered the Royal Academy, in 1779 under the protection of the history painter Gabriel Doyen, then Callet in 1786, and Drevet's workshop in 1789. He was also a student of Antoine Renou.

Vallin only started exhibiting at the Salon in 1791, initially showing two paintings, La Tempête and Petit Paysage.
The influence of Claude Joseph Vernet, but also that of Bidauld marks a painting of 1793 The Shepherdess of the Alps preserved in the Museum of Algiers.
Very quickly, he became successful with his paintings of nymphs and bacchantes placed in harmonious landscapes often bathed in a fine golden light. Vallin also drew his inspiration from ancient history and mythology.
His last appearance at the Salon was in 1827.
Vallin was buried on November 29, 1835, in the Montparnasse cemetery.

Jacques-Antoine Vallin is a follower of Jacques-Philippe de Caresme's bacchanals and pastoral galantines, in a more neo-classical or even historical style, in keeping with his time and close to Prud'hon.
His painted work presents a freshness of color and a real grace in the faces and attitudes of the characters.
He also executed portraits of Greuzian inspiration, as well as several paintings of ancient or modern history that he presented in priority to the Salon.

Collections:

Several paintings of Jacques Antoine Vallin are exhibited in French museums:

Shipwreck scene, 1795: Museum of the French Revolution of Vizille.
Bacchae in a landscape, 1796: Museum of Fine Arts of Quimper.
Diana and her nymphs at the bath are surprised by Actaeon. Effect of a setting sun, 1810: Louvre Museum.
Young cellist, 1810 : Musée Marmottant.
Diana the Huntress, 1826: Thomas Henry Museum in Cherbourg.
The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Salon of 1827: Louvre Museum.
Fighting Lovers: Magnin Museum of Dijon.
Bacchante: Magnin Museum of Dijon.
Bacchante asleep in the undergrowth: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours.
Bacchantes and loves: Municipal Museum of Soissons.
The waterfall of Tivoli: Museum of Art and History of Romain Rolland of Clamecy.
Disenchantment: Magnin Museum of Dijon.
Diane Chasseresse: Museum of Fine Arts of Caen.
Hylas and the Nymphs: Baron Martin Museum of Gray.
Reclining nymph: Museum of Fine Arts and Lace of Alençon.
Nymphs : Musée du Petit-Palais.
Offering to Pan : Musée du Petit Palais.
Portrait of a man: Magnin Museum in Dijon.

Foreign Museums:

Belisaire begging with his child, 1798: Leipzig, Museum de Bildenden Künste.
Full-length portrait of Dr. Forlenze, 1807: London, National Gallery.