Joseph Coteau
Joseph Coteau (also Jean-Joseph Coteau and Jean Coteau; 1740–1801[1]) was a French enamellist.[2]
Since the description by Henri Clouzot,[3] he has been said to be born in Geneva,[2] but has been found to be unknown there in civil status archives, but he might have been apprentice there or have been born nearby.[4] With his spouse, Elisabeth Chapman, he had a daughter, Elisabeth. On 5 August 1809, she married Jean Maurice Barrai, a watchmaker born in Geneva.[4]
In 1766 he was accepted as a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc in Paris.[2][5] In 1782, he is described as an "enamel painter" in Paris, rue Poupée, parish of Saint-André-des-Arts.[4]
For the Manufacture de Sèvres he worked on a soft-paste porcelain toilet service that was offered by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg when she visited Paris in 1782 as the comtesse du Nord.[2][4][6] Charles Claude Flahaut, Count of Angiviller, who was administrating the Manufacture de Sèvres from 1774 to 1791,[7] and a person called Vergennes had agreed on the creation of the toilet service in January 1781.[8]
He also worked for the Comte d'Artois Factory.[4][2] His works include decorations for clocks.[2]
Selected works
[edit]- gold cased, double-dialled, cylinder watch with equation of time and calendar indications, ca. 1770, London, British Museum, inv. no. 1958,1201.176[9]
- Louis XVI ormolu astronomical vase clock "pendule a cercles tournants", 1778, Vienna, private collection[10]
- soft-paste porcelain toilet service offered to Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg, Manufacture de Sèvres
- pair of dark blue-ground vases, signed and dated 1783, Paris, Musée du Louvre, OA.7738–7739[6]
- regulator clock showing mean and solar time, 1784, New York, Frick Collection, inv. no. 1999.5.151[11]
- mantel clock, ca. 1790, Royal Collection, inv. no. RCIN 2742[12]
- regulator clock showing mean and solar time, 1792, New York, Frick Collection, inv. no. 1999.5.150[13]
- timepiece, 1793–1794, London, Khalili Collections, inv. no. 503[14]
- skeleton clock, ca. 1795, Rothschild collection[15]
- mantel clock, late 18th century, Royal Collection, inv. no. RCIN 2756[16]
References
[edit]- ↑ The date of death had been dated to after 1810 based on the signature and date on a miniature of Napoleon, Paris, Musée Cognacq-Jay, inv. no. J 545 (museum description). But there are other persons called Coteau in Paris at that time who are possible creators of that work. Cf. Plinval de Guillebon 1992, p. 12.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Colomban et al. 2020, p. 83.
- ↑ Clouzot, Henri (1924). Dictionnaire des miniaturistes sur émail (in French). Paris: Éditions Albert Morancé. p. 56.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Plinval de Guillebon 1992, p. 12.
- ↑ Coteau, Joseph. Oxford University Press. 2011-10-31. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00043173.
- 1 2 Sassoon, Adrian (1991). Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain: catalogue of the collections. Malibu, California: J. Paul Getty Museum. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-89236-173-1.
- ↑ Preaud 1986, p. 392, footnote 6.
- ↑ Preaud 1986, p. 395.
- ↑ "calendar watch; equation watch; watch-case; watch-key". British Museum. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ↑ "Claude Mathieu and Joseph Coteau, A Louis XVI ormolu astronomical Vase Clock". www.kunsthandel-muehlbauer.com. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ↑ "Regulator Clock Showing Mean and Solar Time". collections.frick.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ↑ "Jean Antoine Lépine (1720-1814) - Mantel clock". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ↑ "Regulator Clock Showing Mean and Solar Time". collections.frick.org. Archived from the original on 2025-03-25. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ↑ "Timepiece". Art UK. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ↑ "Exceptional Enamel, Portor and White Carrara Marble, and Finely Chased Gilt Bronze Skeleton Clock". La Pendulerie. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ↑ "Joseph Revel (c. 1775-1828) - Mantel clock". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
Literature
[edit]- Preaud, Tamara (1986). "Sèvres Enamelled Porcelain: Eight Dies (And a Quarrel) Rediscovered". The Burlington Magazine. 128 (999): 391–397. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 882528.
- Plinval de Guillebon, Régine de (1992). "Un phénomène périodique : La mode du décor d'or appliqué et d'émail sur la porcelaine française (XVIIe-XIXe siècles)". Sèvres. Revue de la Société des amis du Musée national de la céramique (in French) (1): 7–22. doi:10.3406/sevre.1992.1281. ISSN 1169-2537.
- Colomban, Philippe; Kırmızı, Burcu; Clais, Jean-Baptiste; Gironda, Michele (December 2020). "An on-site Raman and pXRF study of Joseph Coteau and Philippe Parpette's jewelled porcelain: a summit of ceramic art". Journal of Cultural Heritage. 46: 82–94. doi:10.1016/j.culher.2020.06.008.
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