Lot Essay
In a contemporary French Empire frame
The son of the flower painter Renier-Joseph Malaine, Joseph-Laurent was born and trained in Tournai. In 1787 he was appointed flower painter to Louis XVI at the Gobelins tapestry manufactory but in 1793 he fled to Alsace where his reputation as a painter of flower pieces and floral designs led to his employment in the tapestry factories at Mulhouse, Thann and Rixheim. In 1796 he returned to Paris. The co-operation between the different royal factories led to his appointment as professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Lyon on the very day of his death in 1809
The son of the flower painter Renier-Joseph Malaine, Joseph-Laurent was born and trained in Tournai. In 1787 he was appointed flower painter to Louis XVI at the Gobelins tapestry manufactory but in 1793 he fled to Alsace where his reputation as a painter of flower pieces and floral designs led to his employment in the tapestry factories at Mulhouse, Thann and Rixheim. In 1796 he returned to Paris. The co-operation between the different royal factories led to his appointment as professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Lyon on the very day of his death in 1809