Jacques Aved

Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (12 January 1702 – 4 March 1766), also called le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), was a French painter of the 18th century and one of the main French Rococo portraitists. He painted among others the Ottoman Empire ambassador to France in 1742, Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Efendi.

Jean-Philippe Rameau, c. 1728, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon

Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Efendi, 1742, Louvre Abu Dhabi

His father was a physician and he was orphaned when he was a little boy. He was raised in Amsterdam by one of his uncles, who was a captain in the Dutch Army.

After his training in Amsterdam with François Boitard and Bernard Picart, Jacques Aved started working in Paris for Belle in 1721. He later entered at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture) in 1731 and he was appointed councillor after graduating in 1734 and in 1759, he took part in his last salon. In 1753 he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura.

As an art dealer and collector, he owned one of the most important collections with works by Italian, French and especially Dutch artists. This collection was sold at auction in 1766.

Carle Van Loo, François Boucher, Dumont le Romain and Chardin were some of his pupils.

Further reading

Primary source

• Remy, Pierre (1766). Catalogue raisonné de tableaux de différens bons maîtres des trois écoles… & autres effets qui composent le cabinet de M. Aved, Peintre du Roi & de son académie (in French). Paris: Dibot l'aîne. OCLC 1041768008 – via the Internet Archive.

General studies

• Wildenstein, Georges (1922). Le peintre Aved, sa vie et son oeuvre (catalogue raisonné) (in French). Paris: Les Beaux-Arts. OCLC 797994545. Vol. 1 and 2 available via the Internet Archive.
• Wildenstein, Georges (1935). "Premier supplément à la biographie et au catalogue d'Aved". Gazette des Beaux-Arts (in French). 6 (13): 159–172 – via Gallica.

Additional works

• Göçek, Fatma Müge (1987). East Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 70, 80. ISBN 0-19-504826-1. LCCN 86023727. OCLC 1110703702 – via the Internet Archive.
• Kalnein, Wend Graf [in German]; Levey, Michael (1972). Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in France. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. OCLC 1008263215. SBN 14-056037-8.
• Rosenberg, Pierre (1979). Chardin, 1699–1779 (exposition catalogue). Paris; Cleveland, OH: Édition de la Réunion des musées nationales; Cleveland Museum of Arts. ISBN 0-910-386-48-X. OCLC 1148189380 – via the Internet Archive.

Reference books

• Bénézit, Emmanuel (2006) [originally published in French in 1911]. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 1. Paris: Gründ. p. 865–866. ISBN 2-7000-3070-2 – via the Internet Archive.
• Lespes, Michelle (1996). "Aved, Jacques(-André-Joseph)". In Turner, Jane (ed.). The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 2. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. pp. 851–852. ISBN 1-884446-00-0. OCLC 1033657161 – via the Internet Archive.
• Moes, Ernst Wilhelm (1908). "Aved, Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot". In Thieme, Ulrich; Becker, Felix (eds.). Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler (in German). Vol. 2. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. pp. 271–272. OCLC 1039508956 – via the Internet Archive.
• Prevost, Michel (1948). "Aved (Jacques-André-Joseph)". In Prevost, Michel; Roman d'Amat, Jean-Charles (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie française (in French). Vol. 4. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. cols. 841–842. OCLC 922284766.
• Urra Muena, Želmíra (1992). "Aved, Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot (Jacques), gen. (Aved) le Batave". In Kasten, Eberhard; et al. (eds.). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (in German). Vol. 5. München, Leipzig: Saur. pp. 717–718. ISBN 3-598-22745-0. OCLC 311641678.