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Jean-Pierre Franque (1774–1860), a French painter, was born at
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Jean-Pierre Franque (1774–1860), a French painter, was born at Le Buis
Le Buis (; oc, Lu Bois) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.
Inhabitants are known as ''Buinauds''.
See also
*Communes of the Haute-Vienne department
The following is a list of the 19 ...
. He studied under David
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together with his twin brother Joseph
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, and excelled in historical subjects and portraiture, imitating the style of his master. He married Lucile Messageot, also an artist, who died in 1802, at the age of twenty-two years. Franque died in 1860, leaving among others the following works in the Versailles Gallery:
*''The Passage of the Rhine''; after Le Brun. 1835.
*''The Siege of Lille''; after Van der Meulen and Le Brun. 1836.
*''The Battle of Lens''. 1841.
François Louis de Rousselet, Marquis de Châteaurenault
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People with the given name
* Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters"
* Francis II of France, King ...
'', 1840, now in the Palace of Versailles
File:Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon by Franque.jpg, '' Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon'', now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes
References
* 1774 births 1860 deaths 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters People from Drôme Pupils of Jacques-Louis David 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub