Jean-Frédéric Schall - Artist Info

About Jean-Frédéric Schall

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Jean Frederic Schall
  • Biography

    Jean-Fréderic Schall rose to fame as one of the preeminent genre and pastoral painters of the Ancien Régime. He had studied at the École des Élèves Protégés of the Académie Royale, Paris, in 1772, and became greatly influenced by the art of the Rococo expounded by painters such as François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. His specialized in depictions of single female dancers and amorous young women, which were met with delight by the actresses, dancers, financiers, princes and fashionable ladies of the Parisian beau monde.

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