Jean-Baptiste Goyet or J.-B. Goyet was a self-taught French artist. Beginning in 1827 his work was regularly selected for exhibition in the annual Paris Salon. His genre paintings—variously sentimental, satirical, or historical—reached a wide audience through reproductions using the then-new medium of lithography. His son, Eugène Goyet (1798-1857), also became a painter, with a career that surpassed that of his father. Eugène's wife, Zoé, was also an artist.
Frontispiece and title page, Le Bouquet du Sentiment by Eugénie Goyet, illustrated and published by Jean-Baptiste Goyet in 1816.
Jean-Baptiste Goyet, Héloïse et Abailard, oil on copper, 1829.
Jean-Baptiste Goyet, Une Famille Parisienne (le 28 Juillet 1830), 1830.
Jean-Baptiste Goyet, Une Famille Parisienne (le 30 Juillet 1830), 1830.
Eugène Goyet, was a French artist. Beginning in 1827 his work was regularly selected for exhibition in the annual Paris Salon. He achieved his greatest success as a painter of religious subjects, with his paintings of Christ and various saints installed in churches and public buildings across France. A successful portrait painter, his most prestigious commission was his 1847 portrait of Pope Pius IX. He was the son of self-taught artist Jean-Baptiste Goyet, and husband of the pastel portrait artist Zoé Goyet.
Eugène Goyet
Foulques de Villaret, grand maître des hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem de 1307 à 1327, c. 1841, Salles des Croisades, Palace of Versailles.
Presumed self-portrait auctioned in 2021.
Presumed self-portrait (detail) auctioned in 2021.