Jean Barbault - Artist Info

About Jean Barbault

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    JEAN BARBAULT (1718-1762), LA FRASCATANE, OIL ON CANVASJean Barbault (1718-1762), a painter who was 'delicious and delectable, not without a touch of humour... an outstanding colourist', as Pierre Rosenberg describes him (Le siècle de Louis XV, peinture française de 1710 à 1774, Ottawa, 1976, pp. 28-29), remained in obscurity for a long time before being brought out of the shadows in 1974 with the first monographic exhibition devoted to his work.Barbault's life was one of ups and downs: he began as a student of the austere Jean Restout (1692-1768) in Paris, but thanks to the esteem in which its director, Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752), held him, he was able to enter the Académie de Saint-Luc in Rome with...

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