Jean Jouvenet

France · 1644–1717

Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet was a French painter, especially of religious subjects. == Biography == He was born into an artistic family in Rouen. His first training in art was from his father, Laurent Jouvenet; a generation earlier, his grandfather, Noel Jouvenet, may have taught Nicolas Poussin. Jouvenet early showed a remarkable aptitude for his profession, and on arriving in Paris, attracted the attention of Le Brun, by whom he was employed at Versailles, notably in the Salon de Mars, and under whose auspices, in 1675, he became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, of which he was elected professor in 1681, and one of the four perpetual rectors in 1707. He also worked under Charles de La Fosse in the Invalides and Trianon.

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