Conference
Jean-Baptiste Roy-Audy, Autoportrait, 1826. Collection du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
Conference
The astonishing journey of Jean-Baptiste Roy-Audy
About
As curator of ancient art in Quebec, fascinated by Roy-Audy's work for over twenty-five years, Daniel Drouin has made this artist and his work his passion, contributing significantly to our knowledge of him.
After several important discoveries over the past twenty years and acquisitions that have made it possible to build one of the most significant collections of the artist's work in a Canadian museum to date, Mr. Drouin will share the results of his research on the artistic output of Jean-Baptiste Roy-Audy, who is still little known and poorly understood by lovers of old art in Quebec.
Jean-Baptiste Roy-Audy (1778, Quebec City – possibly 1846, New York) was one of the most active portrait and history painters in the province of Quebec between 1820 and 1840. Self-taught, he worked in the commercial world painting signs before embarking on a career as an artist that took him to Quebec, Ontario, and the United States.
Speaker
Daniel Drouin has been a curator of ancient art since 2002. He studied art history (M.A. 1992) at Université Laval. Over the past 30 years, he has acquired several thousand works of art, written dozens of articles and scientific works, given numerous lectures, sat on various committees, and worked on the production and coordination of over 30 national and international exhibitions, both temporary and permanent, including Fine Arts in New France (2012–2013); The Fabulous Destiny of the Paintings of the Abbés Desjardins (2017–2018); 350 Years of Artistic Practices in Québec (since 2018); and Manasie Akpaliapik. Inuit Universe (2021–2023).
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