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Jacques François Courtin (1672–1752) was a French painter who was particularly adept at translating genre scenes based on
at Dorotheum
Jacques François Courtin was born in
Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...
examples into a contemporary setting through the use of staging and costume. He was one of the most popular genre painters of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.Jacques François Courtin (Sens 1672–1752 Paris), ''Children making music, with a Moor page''at Dorotheum
Life
Jacques François Courtin was born in Sens
Sens () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yonne Departments of France, department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, 120 km from Paris.
Sens is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture and the second city of the d ...
in 1672. He was a pupil of Louis de Boullogne, and painted the final 'May
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' offered to the cathedral of Notre-Dame by the goldsmiths of Paris in 1707, the subject of which was 'St. Paul preaching at Troas.' He died in Paris in 1752.
His patrons included the royal family as well as many of the important collectors in Paris.
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* 1672 births 1752 deaths 17th-century French painters French male painters 18th-century French painters People from Sens 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-17thC-stub