with Charles-Joseph Natoire (1740-44, Paris), French Academy in Rome (1744-50)
1743 – wins Prix de Rome
1750 – fails in application to Académie Royale
1751 - Académie Royale junior member (agréé) based on acceptance of The Embarkation of St Martha (1751)
1754 - Académie Royale full member (history painter) based on acceptance of Daedalus and Icarus (1754, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris)
1756 – refuses offer to become court painter to Frederik V, King of Denmark
1759 – becomes Académie Royale professor
1775-89 – becomes Director of French Academy in Rome
1789 – appointed First Painter to Louis XVI
Rome (1744-50; 1775-89)
Bâtiments du Roi (state), Louis XVI, Danish Count Adam Gottlieb Moltke
St Denis Preaching the Faith in France, 1767 (St Roch, Paris)
Marie-Gabrielle Capet, The Painter’s Studio (Mme Labille-Guiard Painting the Portrait of Vien) 1808 (Neue Pinokothek, Munich)
Gaehtgens, Thomas. Joseph-Marie Vien, peintre du roi, 1716-1809. Paris: Athena, 1989 (in French)