Benjamin Rolland

Benjamin de Rolland
Portrait of Benjamin de Rolland in his atelier by Eugénie du Colombier, 1833
Born	(1773-04-23)23 April 1773 Guadeloupe
Died	24 March 1855(1855-03-24) (aged 81) Grenoble, France
Nationality	French
Education	Jacques-Louis David
Alma mater	Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Occupations	Portraitist Court painter Museum director Director of Academy of Arts
Known for	Painting
Movement	Academicism Neoclassicism French School Romanticism
Patron(s)	Joachim Murat, King of Naples

Benjamin Rolland or Benjamin de Rolland was a French painter born in Guadeloupe around 1773 and died in Grenoble, France on March 24, 1855. ^[1]

Biography

A student of Jacques-Louis David, he later taught the children of King Joachim Murat in Naples. He painted numerous portraits of members of royal and aristocratic families.

De Rolland became the director and curator of the Grenoble Museum from 1817 to 1853, ^[2] he also taught at the city's School of Painting and Drawing, where his students included painters Ernest Hébert, Théodore Fantin-Latour (father of Henri Fantin-Latour), Jules Guédy and Eugénie Chosson du Colombier. ^[3]

Paris Salons

Benjamin de Rolland exhibited at the Salons of 1806, 1808, 1817, 1819, 1822, and 1824.

Works

• Paintings by Benjamin de Rolland
• 
  Achille Murat in the garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta (1811)
• 
  Letizia Murat in the garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta (1811)
• 
  Luciano Murat playing on the terrace of the Royal Palace of Caserta (1811)
• 
  Luisa Murat dancing in the garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta (1811)
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  Mathilde Joséphine Hélène Perier, baronne de Chabaud-Latour, at the age of 15 (1827)

Museum Collections (Selection)

• Louvre Museum
• Musée d'Orsay
• Musée Hébert
• Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
• Museum of Grenoble
• Museum of Romanticism (Madrid)
• Royal Palace of Caserta
• Musées de Sens
• Musée de la chasse, histoire et nature en Val de Loire

References

1. "Rolland, Benjamin de". Benezit Dictionary of Artists . Benezit Dictionary of Artists. September 2025. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00155033.
2. Rolland, Benjamin; Thomas, Henry (1838). "Catalogue des tableaux, statues et autres objets d'art du Musée de Grenoble" [Catalog of paintings, statues, and other art objects in the Grenoble Museum]. National Library of France (in French). Grenoble: impr. de Prudhomme. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
3. Saur, K.G. (2024). "Benjamin de Rolland". Artists of the World. Berlin: De Gruyter Brill. ISSN   1865-0511.

Bibliography

• Jimmy Hammarberg, Benjamin Rolland, l'artiste qui venait d'ailleurs. Master 1 Histoire de l'art, Université Pierre Mendès-France Grenoble II, 2004-2005.

External links

Media related to Benjamin Rolland at Wikimedia Commons

• Benjamin de Rolland at Lux: Yale Collections Discovery
• Benjamin de Rolland at Musée d'Orsay