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JOUVENET, JEAN (1647-1717)

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JOUVENET, See also:JEAN (1647-1717) , See also:French painter, See also:born at See also:Rouen, came of a See also:family of artists, one of whom had taught Poussin. He See also:early showed remarkable aptitude for his profession, and, on arriving in See also:Paris, attracted the See also:attention of Le Brun, by whom he was employed at See also:Versailles, and under whose auspices, in 1675, he became a member of the Academie Royale, of which he was elected See also:professor in 1681, and one of the four perpetual rectors in 1707. The See also:great See also:mass of See also:works that he executed, chiefly in Paris, many of which, including his celebrated Miraculous See also:Draught of Fishes (engraved by See also:Audran; also See also:Landon, Annales, i. 42), are now in the Louvre, show his fertility in invention and See also:execution, and also that he possessed in a high degree that See also:general dignity of arrangement and See also:style which distinguished the school of Le Brun. Jouvenet died on the 5th of See also:April 1717, having been forced by See also:paralysis during the last four years of his See also:life to See also:work with his See also:left See also:hand. See Mem. ined. acad. See also:roy. de p. et de sc., 1854, and D'Argenville, Vies See also:des peintres.

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