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(2) Jacques(-Henri) Sablet
(b Morges, Vaud, 28 Jan 1749; d Paris, 22 Aug 1803). Painter, draughtsman and printmaker, brother of (1) François Sablet. He trained as a decorative painter in Lyon before his studies in Paris. Thanks to a grant from the State of Berne, he was able to go to Rome. In 1778 he received a first prize at the Accademia in Parma with the Death of Pallas (Parma, G.N.). In 1781, after painting an Allegory of the Republic of Berne Protecting the Arts (Berne, Kstmus.), he abandoned history painting for genre scenes; the touching sensibility of such paintings as A Father’s Devotion (1784; Stockholm, Nmus.) and the First Steps of Childhood (1789; Forlì, Municipio) is derived from the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Salomon Gessner. He collaborated with Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros on the publication of a series of Italian costumes in aquatint, providing the drawings from which Ducros made the plates, and himself executed in 1786 a series of etchings of popular characters (see 1985 exh. cat., pp. 100–13). Such paintings as Popular Entertainments in Naples (Stockholm, Drottningholms Slott) and Blind-man’s Buff (Lausanne, Pal. Rumine), remarkable for their lifelike expression, luminosity and vivacious colouring, also exemplify his interest in the newly developing taste for such subjects.
Part of the Sablet family
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