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Benjamin Rolland
Portrait of Benjamin de Rolland in his atelier by Eugénie Chosson du Colombier, 1833
Musée de Grenoble
Born(1773-04-23)23 April 1773
Guadeloupe
Died24 March 1855(1855-03-24) (aged 81)
Grenoble, France
NationalityFrench
Other namesLe déterminé furieux
EducationJacques-Louis David at the Louvre
Alma materAcadémie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Occupations
  • Portraitist
  • Court painter
  • Museum director
  • Director of Academy of Arts
  • Author
Known forPainting
MovementAcademic art
Neoclassicism
French School
Romanticism
Patron(s)Joachim Murat, King of Naples

Benjamin Rolland, or Benjamin de Rolland (1773 – 1855) was a French history painter. He was born in Guadeloupe in 1773 and died in Grenoble, France on March 24, 1855.[1]

Biography

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Benjamin de Rolland was born on April 23, 1773, in Guadeloupe and was of French Creole descent [2][3]and Carcassonne nobility.[4] He left Guadeloupe around the age of 13 to pursue his education in Paris, France.[2]

De Rolland studied under Guillaume Guillon-Lethière at his Paris atelier in Rue Childebert, Saint-Germain-des-Prés.[2] A student of Jacques-Louis David in the late 1890s[3] before becoming an appointed court painter and tutoring King Joachim Murat's children at the Royal Palaces of Caserta and Naples. He painted many portraits of members of the royal and aristocratic families.

From 1817 to 1853, he served as the director and curator of the Museum of Grenoble.[5] De Rolland also directed and taught at the city's School of Painting and Drawing, where his students included the artists Ernest Hébert,[6] Théodore Fantin-Latour (father of Henri Fantin-Latour), Jules Guédy, Victor Sappey and Eugénie Chosson du Colombier.[7]

Benjamin de Rolland exhibited at the Paris Salons, held at the Louvre Palace in 1801, 1806, 1808, 1817, 1819, 1822, and 1824.[8]

The Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, and the Royal Palace of Caserta are among the art institutions that possess a number of his paintings.

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Museum collections

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Iconography

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References

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  1. ^ "Rolland, Benjamin de". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. September 2025. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00155033.
  2. ^ a b c Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo (13 December 2022). Creole: Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century. Penn State Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-271-09269-0.
  3. ^ a b Napoli Nobilissima: rivista di arti figurative, archeologia e urbanistica (in Italian). Arte Tipografica. 2007. p. 228.
  4. ^ Notice Œuvre, Musée de Grenoble, retrieved 24 September 2025, Issu de la noblesse carcassonnaise, Benjamin Rolland naît en Guadeloupe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle après l'installation de sa famille sur l'île. Transl.: Born into the Carcassonne nobility, Benjamin Rolland was born in Guadeloupe at the end of the 18th century after his family settled on the island.
  5. ^ Rolland, Benjamin; Thomas, Henry (1838). "Catalogue des tableaux, statues et autres objets d'art du Musée de Grenoble" [Catalog of paintings, statues, and other art objects in the Grenoble Museum]. National Library of France (in French). Grenoble: impr. de Prudhomme. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  6. ^ Bénédite, Léonce (1910). Great Painters of the XIXth Century and Their Paintings. Sir I. Pitman and sons. p. 123.
  7. ^ Saur, K.G. (2024). "Benjamin de Rolland". Artists of the World. Berlin: De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 1865-0511.
  8. ^ Bernard, Jules (1901). "Catalogue de tableaux, statues, bas-reliefs et objets d'art exposés dans les galeries du Musée de peinture et de sculpture / [introduction et catalogue par Jules Bernard] ; Ville de Grenoble" [Catalogue of paintings, statues, bas-reliefs, and objets d'art exhibited in the galleries of the Museum of Painting and Sculpture / [introduction and catalogue by Jules Bernard]; City of Grenoble]. National Library of France (in French). Grenoble: Impr. générale (Grenoble). Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  9. ^ "Benjamin de Rolland: Homère chantant son Iliade". Louvre Museum. 1804. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  10. ^ "Benjamin de Rolland (43295)". Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  11. ^ "Benjamin de Rolland". Musée d'Orsay; Musée Hébert. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  12. ^ "Benjamin de Rolland: Reception in Bordeaux of the Duke and Duchess of Angoulême at the Palais Rohan, who came to preside over the legislative elections in 1815". Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology of Libourne. 1817. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  13. ^ "Benjamin de Rolland: Portrait d'enfant (the artist's cousin August Noël)". The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  14. ^ "Benjamin de Rolland: Young Girl Entering the Bath or Standing Nude at the Bath". Museum of Grenoble. 1805. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  15. ^ "Benjamin de Rolland: A father and his sick child". Museum of Grenoble. 1808. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  16. ^ "Benjamin de Rolland: Portrait of two girls in front of a landscape". National Museum of Romanticism. 1821. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  17. ^ "Benjamin de Rolland: Napoleon holding the hand of Marshal Duroc as he dies". Palais Fesch-musée des beaux-arts. 1814. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  18. ^ "Benjamin de Rolland: Portraits of Joachim Murat's children in the garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta". Royal Palace of Caserta. 1811. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  19. ^ "Benjamin de Rolland: Portrait of a young Hunter". Château-musée de Gien, Chasse, histoire et nature en Val-de-Loire. 1816. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  20. ^ The catalog entry for the Girodet exhibition, Paris, 2005-2006, states that this painting was purchased for 600 francs; the museum's website, see the following note, mentions a gift from the model.
  21. ^ "Portrait of Benjamin de Rolland" (in French). Musée de Grenoble. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  22. ^ "Portrait of Benjamin de Rolland" (in French). Musée de Grenoble. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  23. ^ "Portrait présumé de Benjamin Rolland" (in French). Collections des musées de France (Joconde). Retrieved 26 September 2025.

Bibliography

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  • Valérie Huss, Grenoble et ses artistes au XIXe siècle (catalogue de l'exposition du 14 mars au 25 octobre 2020), Grenoble, Éditions Snoeck - Musée de Grenoble, 2020, 272 p. (ISBN 9461615949).
  • Jimmy Hammarberg, Benjamin Rolland, l'artiste qui venait d'ailleurs. [Benjamin Rolland, the artist who came from elsewhere] Master 1 Histoire de l'art, Université Pierre Mendès-France Grenoble II, 2004-2005.
  • ROLLAND (Benjamin). - Catalogue des tableaux et objets d'art du musée de Grenoble. - Grenoble, 1844.
  • ROLLAND (Benjamin). - Catalogue des tableaux, statues et autres objets d'art exposés dans le musée de Grenoble. - Grenoble: Imprimerie de Prudhomme, 1838.
  • ROLLAND (Benjamin). - Catalogue des tableaux, statues et objets d'art exposés dans le musée de Grenoble. - Grenoble, 1834.
  • ROLLAND (Benjamin). - Catalogue des tableaux et statues du musée de Grenoble, 1831.
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