Jean-François Oeben

Jean-François Oeben, ko Johann Franz Oeben (9 ga Oktoba 1721 - 21 ga Janairu 1763) ɗan ƙasar Jamus ne ( mai yin kabad ) wanda aikinsa ya yi a birnin Paris. Shi ne kakan uwa ga mai zane Eugène Delacroix .

 Rayuwa da aiki 
Babu wani abu da aka sani game da horonsa. Ya kasance a birnin Paris a kusan shekara ta 1740; daga shekara ta 1749 ya zauna a birnin Faubourg Saint-Antoine .

A tsakanin 1751 zuwa 1754 ya yi aiki a matsayin rakiya a wurin bitar Charles-Joseph Boulle, ɗan babban Ébeniste na Louis XIV, André Charles Boulle, sannan ya yi aiki da kansa a cikin ginin da ke cikin Galleries na Louvre wanda Boulle ya ba shi. Daga 1754 an ba shi wurin zama, da farko a Manufacture des Gobelins, sannan, a 1756, a cikin bita da masauki a Arsenal.
Duk da cewa ya yi bita a ƙarƙashin naɗin sarauta, a tsawon aikinsa, mai naɗa majalisar sarakuna, ébeniste du Roi, shine Gilles Joubert . Oeben ya yi aiki ga masu sarauta wani lokacin ta hanyar masu shiga tsakani, yana samar da kayan daki masu kyau  tare da kayan ado na furanni waɗanda suka bazu, a cikin shekarun ƙarshe na aikinsa, zuwa ga tsarin tayal mai laushi.

Oeben ya yi aiki sosai ga Madame de Pompadour : a cikin kayan da aka tattara bayan mutuwarsa akwai kayayyaki goma da ke jiran a kawo wa Mme de Pompadour. Ta yi odar kayan daki da yawa daga gare shi a shekarar 1761, babu shakka ga Château de Bellevue, kuma ta riga ta biya livres 17,400 a asusunta. A cikin kayan bayan mutuwarta, akwai commodes guda goma sha shida "à la Grecque" waɗanda dole ne su fito daga Oeben, wanda ke kan gaba a wannan matakin farko na salon neoclassical ; a cikin sanarwar da ke tallata sayar da kayansa bayan mutuwarsa, an bayyana a sarari cewa komai yana cikin "sabon salo" [1] (Eriksen 1974:208). Ba duk kayan daki na Mme de Pompadour suka yi watsi da salon rococo ba: a Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Metropolitan, tebur na injiniya wanda Oeben da surukinsa RVLC suka buga [2] ya huda ƙafafun cabriole, saboda wani tasirin haske da alheri na musamman. Na'urorin da ke ɗauke da kayan yaƙi na Pompadour, hasumiya, da kuma tambarin RVLC da ke nuna cewa ɗaya daga cikin kayan aikin da aka bari a wurin aikin ne da aka bari ba a kammala ba a lokacin mutuwar Oeben, wanda Roger Vandercruse ya kammala kuma ya buga.

 Manazarta 

 Eriksen, Svend, 1974. Tsarin Neo-Classicism na Farko a Faransa (London: Faber)
 Stratman Döhler, Rosemarie, Jean François Oeben, Paris, 2002,