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Facts

Born April 18, 1768 • Paris • France
Died June 28, 1848 (aged 80) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Picturesque and Historical Voyage to Brazil”
Movement / Style Neoclassical art
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Self-portrait
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French painter
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Nicolas Poussin: Adoration of the Golden Calf
Nicolas Poussin
French painter
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.
Henri Matisse
French artist
Watteau, Antoine: Mezzetin
Antoine Watteau
French painter
Oil on canvas self-portrait by Edouard Manet, showing the artist in a brown coat and black hat, holding paintbrushes and a palette against a dark background.
Édouard Manet
French painter
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father
Claude Lorrain
French artist
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
Portrait of French artist Georges Seurat with curly hair, full beard, and mustache, wearing a suit and looking slightly to the side.
Georges Seurat
French painter
German artist Max Ernst stands indoors in a casual jacket with one hand on his hip, looking toward the camera, circa 1955 in France.
Max Ernst
German artist
Robert, Hubert: Antiquities of Provence
Hubert Robert
French painter
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Portrait of Marguerite de Valois, chalk drawing by François Clouet, c. 1559; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. 30.1 × 21.1 cm.
François Clouet
French painter
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter
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Jean-Baptiste Isabey
French painter
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Alphonse Legros
French-British artist
André Masson
André Masson
French artist

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