Petitot, Jean

Petitot, Jean

▪ Swiss painter
born July 12, 1607, Geneva, Switz.
died April 3, 1691, Vevey

      Swiss painter who was the first great miniature portraitist in enamel. (enamel miniature)

      The son of the sculptor Faulle Petitot, he was apprenticed to a Swiss jeweler from 1622 to 1626. About 1633 he went to France, where he probably became the pupil of Jean and Henri Toutin, the originators of the art of painting miniature portraits in enamel. By 1637 Petitot had arrived in England, where he was patronized by Charles I and his court. Only a few miniatures are known from this period, and all are copies of portraits by the court painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck.

      Petitot had high expectations of his stay in England, but, after the outbreak of the first of the English Civil Wars, he returned to France. For many years he enjoyed the patronage of Louis XIV (1638–1715) and his courtiers. He executed many portraits of the king, his family, and the most celebrated figures in the king's entourage; most were based upon paintings by fashionable artists. Petitot worked in partnership with Jacques Bordier until the latter's death in 1684. When the Edict of Nantes, a document granting religious tolerance to French Protestants, was revoked in 1685, Petitot, as a Protestant, was imprisoned. Worn out by fever and old age, he signed a recantation and was freed. In 1687 he was allowed to return to Geneva and was received back into the Reformed church.

      Although priority in the discovery of the art of painting enamel miniature portraits belongs to the Toutins, it was Petitot who raised the art to a level never surpassed. While relying primarily on original portraits by others, he was able to preserve to a remarkable degree the character of the work he was transforming into a small, jewellike roundel. The most important collections of his works are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Louvre, Paris. His style, much imitated in his own time, provoked a vast number of 18th- and 19th-century copies or imitations.

      His son Jean-Louis Petitot (1653–after 1699) painted portrait enamels in a style closely resembling that of his father.

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