Maupérin (
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1766-) was a French painter of the 18th century who produced works for
Louis XVI.
Maupérin was a painter of some reputation. On 31 December 1766, he obtained the third medal of the
Académie Royale. He was a member of the
Académie de Saint-Luc, where some of his works were put on display in 1774.
He notably painted the young
Vietnamese Prince
Nguyễn Phúc Cảnh, and Father
Pigneau de Béhaine of the
Paris Foreign Missions Society, during their embassy in Paris in 1787. These paintings are now located at the Paris Foreign Missions Society.
Missions Étrangères de Paris official website
He also exhibited some of his works at the Louvre after the French Revolution.
Paintings
Image:Pigneau de Behaine MEP portrait.jpg, Portrait of Pigneau de Béhaine, 1787, by Maupérin.
Image:Prince Canh MEP.jpg, Portrait of the Vietnamese Crown Prince Nguyen Phuc Canh
Nguyễn () is the most common Vietnamese surname. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. Nguyên (元）is a different word and surname.
By some estimates 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this s ...
, eldest son of Emperor Gia Long
Gia Long ( (''North''), ('' South''); 8 February 1762 – 3 February 1820), born Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (阮福暎) or Nguyễn Ánh, was the founding emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last dynasty of Vietnam. His dynasty would rule the unif ...
, 1787, by Maupérin.
Notes
References
*''Les Missions Etrangères. Trois siècles et demi d'histoire et d'aventure en Asie'' Editions Perrin, 2008,
18th-century French painters
French male painters
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
18th-century French male artists
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