Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines
Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, known as Fontaine (19 March 1769, Metz - 10 December 1823, Paris) was a French painter and designer. He is best known for his Genre art, genre and battle scenes. Biography He first learned painting from his father François Louis Swebach-Desfontaines (1749-1793), a self-taught amateur artist and a Member of the Scientific Society of Metz who illustrated ''Histoire naturelle : ou, Exposition des morceaux, les mieux choisis pour servir à l'étude de la minéralogie et de la cristallographie''. Jacques François then studied with Joseph Duplessis in Paris. In the late 1780s, he frequented the woods near the Château de Fontainebleau, with Lazare Bruandet and Georges Michel (painter), Georges Michel, painting landscapes. During the French Revolution, Revolution, his paintings were of a patriotic nature; notably ''The Young Darruder'' and ''Joseph Agricol Viala'', both engraved by . In 1798, he exhibited six troop and battle scenes at ...
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