Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (17 October 1723 – 15 December 1769) was a French painter working in the style of his father-in-law, François Boucher.
Life
The son of Michel Baudouin, an
engraver of little note, he was born in Paris in 1723. He was a pupil and imitator of
Boucher, whose younger daughter he married in 1758, and through whose influence he was elected an
Academician
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in 1763, as a
miniature painter
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, on which occasion he presented his drawing of ''Hyperides pleading the cause of Phryne before the Areopagus'', now in the
Louvre
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. Baudouin executed idyllic and erotic subjects in water-colours and crayons, but rarely painted in oil. He died in Paris in 1769.
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1723 births
1769 deaths
Painters from Paris
18th-century French painters
French male painters
18th-century French male artists
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