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- January 7, 1751, Lunéville, France
- Died:
- August 27, 1831, Paris (aged 80)
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Dumont, François: Mademoiselle de Montbrizon
Mademoiselle de Montbrizon, watercolour on ivory miniature by François Dumont, 1795; in the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
François Dumont
French painter
François Dumont (born January 7, 1751, Lunéville, France—died August 27, 1831, Paris) was one of the greatest miniature painters.
He studied for a time under Jean Girardet and in 1788 was accepted as an academician and granted an apartment in the Louvre. He painted portraits of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Louis XVIII, and Charles X and of almost all the important persons of his day. A younger brother, known as Tony Dumont, was also a miniature painter, a pupil of his brother, a frequent exhibitor, and the recipient of a medal from the French Academy in 1810. Each artist signed with the surname only, and there is some controversy concerning the attribution to each of his own canvases.
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