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| Jean-Baptiste Charpentier (I) (1728–1806) | ||||||||||
| Jean-Baptiste Charpentier the Elder was a French Rococo painter and draughtsman of genre scenes and portraits, born and raised in Paris. A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, he later became his rival. He first exhibited at the Salon de la Jeunesse in 1760, and again the following year, when he was regarded as one of the exhibition’s most distinguished participants. Charpentier went on to show work at the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1762 and 1764, where he was made a counsellor, and in 1774 he was appointed professor. He continued to exhibit regularly at the Académie de Saint-Luc, and also at the Académie Royale and the Salon du Louvre between 1760 and 1799. He became painter-in-ordinary to the Duke of Penthièvre, producing numerous portraits of the Duke and his family. Alongside his portraits, Charpentier painted scenes of peasant life influenced by 17th-century Dutch masters, as well as religious works and still lifes. He died in Paris. | ||||||||||
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