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Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse (1 November 1784,
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- 15 November 1844,
Paris
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) was a French painter and
lithographer
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; specializing in battle scenes and portraits.
Biography
He came from a modest background. His father was the organist at
Corbeil Cathedral, and could not afford to pay for Jean-Baptiste's studies. At the age of nineteen, he left home and was able to find a position in the studios of
François-André Vincent
François-André Vincent (; 30 December 1746 – 4 August 1816) was a French neoclassical painter.
Biography
Vincent was born in Paris in 1746, the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent. He studied under Joseph-Marie Vien and was ...
, at the
École des Beaux-Arts
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in
Paris
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. His début at the
Salon
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came in 1808, and he obtained a first-class gold medal there in 1812, for ''Arab Lamenting the Death of His Courser''.
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Many of his commissions were for the government, often in collaboration with other artists. These included decorating the apartments of King
Louis XVIII
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, the figures of
Prometheus
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and
Tantalus
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for the
Musée de Picardie
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in
Amiens
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(1819), and several
plafond
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s at the
Louvre
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(1822), in what is now known as the "Salle des Bijoux". These feature figures representing Science, Art, Commerce, and War, as well as the four seasons.
For his work there, he was named a Knight in the
Legion of Honor
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in 1823.
He also created decorations for two cathedrals, the
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges
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, and the
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Nantes. In 1837, he received a personal commission from
Louis-Philippe
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, to portray him at the
Battle of Valmy
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.
A significant number of his works are in private collections. In addition to those at the Louvre, some may be seen at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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in New York.
References
Further reading
* ''Catalogue sommaire, illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay École française III'', Paris, 1986, pg.57
* ''Catalogue sommaire, illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay École française IV'', Paris, 1986, pp. 75–77
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1784 births
1844 deaths
18th-century French painters
French male painters
19th-century French painters
French lithographers
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19th-century French male artists
18th-century French male artists