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Fine Arts
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Showing a gift early on for line and color, François-Marius Granet studies drawing at Aix-en-Provence with Constantin. Around 1793-1794, he works with Faurius Saint Vincens for the Historical Monuments Inventory : among the findings are views of the Montmajour Abbey and the Saint-Trophime Cloister... There he develops a special appreciation for ancient architecture and ruins. In 1802, he leaves for Rome, visiting the Piedmont region, Naples, Assisi, Tivoli, Viterbo, Florence. He spends almost 20 years in Italy, meets his wife there, and returns only a few times to France, whether it be to Aix-en-Provence or Paris. The landscapes of Italy, the light and the colors he encounters amaze him. He paints many cloisters, monasteries, church interiors, and crypts...He especially likes these atmospheres of introspection and the chiaroscuros offered by the interiors of underground churches. From then on he is referred to as "the painter of Capuchins". Back in France, he continues painting these religious sites as well as landscapes and ruins. He likes Italy and Provence above all. Besides, Parisians refer call him "the priest of Provence". He never really adjusts to the capital, where he works, first in David's studio, then on his own, exposing in the Salons. He decides late in life to take up history painting. In 1849, he dies at home in Aix-en-Provence, in the blockhouse he had purchased while still in Paris.
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François-Marius Granet's attraction for convents is undeniable. In 1829 he paints another work commissioned by "the Carthusian cloister at Sainte-Marie des Anges in Rome", exhibited at the 1836 Salon. The sketch and the finished work are part of the collection belonging to the Granet Museum of Aix-en-Provence.
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A limpid open sky, the atmosphere's transparency, light rather drawing serves to accentuates a distant building in this work by François-Marius Granet.
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He is named curator of the Louvre museum, he paints, mainly for his friends and for himself, watercolor landscapes and church interiors or religious scenes in oil paint.
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