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Author's biography |
French painter. After receiving instruction in art from Jean Girardet (1709?8) and Jean-Baptiste-Charles Claudot (1733?805), he went to Paris in 1781, where he won recognition as a miniature painter. The miniatures he painted in the 1790s, for example his portrait of Mme Vanh閑, n閑 Dewinck (1792; Paris, Louvre), are among his most animated works; often portraying figures in a landscape setting, they develop the exuberant style of Niclas LA> He also admired theA> whose Bacchante (Waddesdon Manor, Bucks, NT) in his own colA> (London, Wallace) and in enamel (Paris, Louvre). |
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