French painter. He studied at the cole Publique de Dessin in Strasbourg c. 1768 and in 1772 was admitted to the Acadmie Royale in Paris, where he was a pupil of Nicolas-Bernard Lpici between 1776 and 1779. He did not become a member of the Acadmie and so could not exhibit at the Salon until the French Revolution. He worked for private patrons, producing erotic and pastoral subjects in a style influenced by Franois
Boucher, Jean-Honor
Fragonard and Pierre-Antoine Baudouin; many of these pictures achieved popularity in the form of engravings. His most distinctive paintings are single figures of dancers and young ladies in soft, picturesque landscape settings
In 1793-94 he painted the Heroism of William Tell (Muse des Beax-Arts, Strasbourg) but this politically engaged subject was exceptional in his output. Although he continued to paint erotic scenes, his later paintings have a delicate, evocative character that suggests the influence of Pierre-Paul Prud hon. The moralizing theme and detailed finish of the False Appearance (Muse des Beax-Arts, Strasbourg), which was awarded a prize in the Salon of 1798, demonstrate Schall s ability to adapt both style and content to changing tastes. He also illustrated narrative scenes from historical and literary sources, from which series of prints were made, notably by Charles-Melchior Descourtis. Despite the variety of styles in which he worked, Schall is chiefly of interest as a belated exponent of the Rococo whose work became a major source for the Rococo Revival at the time of his death.
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