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.[1]
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.[2]
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.
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^Jacques André Joseph Camellot Aved in the RKD
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.
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.
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.
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