Jacques Wilbault , or Wilbaut is a painter French of the xviii th century and beginning of the xix th century.
He is one of his uncle's students, Nicolas Wilbault . He then moved to Paris in 1750, at the age of 21. He studied there at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and worked there in the studio of Jean Restout , friend of Nicolas Wilbault. Forced to return to the Porcien in 1752, he remained there . In 1765, at the age of 36, he married Marie-Nicole Coutier, widow of a surgeon from Château-Porcien . A daughter of Marie-Nicole Coutier and her first husband, Louis Laval, married a few years later the painter from Reims Nicolas Perseval .
Jacques Wilbault painted mainly portraits, and religious themes. These works on religious themes have been present in many churches and buildings in Porcien and Rethélois . Some are still present there, as well as at the Saint-Etienne cathedral in Châlons-en-Champagne . But many paintings disappeared during the French Revolution . Interrupted for a moment, this religious production was able to resume under the First Empire .
