page_title: Johann Eleazar Zeissig
section_title: Artistic style
hierarchical_section_title: Johann Eleazar Zeissig / Artistic style
caption_attribution_description: English: Left to right: Karl of Saxony (1752-1781), Maria Amalia Augusta of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1752-1828), Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750-1827), Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria (1724-1780), Maria Anna of Saxony (1761-1820), Maria Amalia of Saxony (1757–1831), Maximilian, Crown Prince of Saxony (1759-1838), Anthony of Saxony (1755-1836) and Prince regent Franz Xavier of Saxony (1730-1806).
context_page_description: Johann Eleazar Zeissig, also known as Schenau, was a German genre, portrait and porcelain painter, and engraver; director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.
context_section_description: Schenau began his artistic career as a copyist of old masters. In Paris he became acquainted with contemporary painters, but also through his studies at the Académie royale was influenced by French art theory of the time. His work also reveals the influence of the Dutch Fijnschilders, such as Gerard Dou and Caspar Netscher.
  His work was also influenced by his French friends, such as Jean Siméon Chardin, and, especially, Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Many of his drawings and paintings were reproduced as copper engraving reproductions for mass sale. Under the name Daniel Heimlich, Schenau also published etchings of views from the area around Paris.
  Many of his works are now lost or destroyed, such as the altarpiece of the Holy Cross Church in Dresden, which he had worked on from 1788-1792; a fire in 1897 destroyed the nave and the altar which was replaced by a work by Anton Dietrich (1833-1904).
  Most of his surviving works are now in museums in Saxony. A few of his works, such as "Elector of Saxony's Family" (1772) and "The Art Discussion" (1777), can be found in the Dresden State Art Collections. Many works are in the "Deutsches Damast-und Frottiermuseum" in his hometown of Großschönau.
caption: The kurfürstlich-sächsische family (1772)
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