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Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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PESNE, Antoine
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| French painter (1683-1757) French painter active in Prussia. He studied with his father, the portrait painter Thomas Pesne (1653-1727), and with his maternal great-uncle, Charles de La Fosse. In 1703, as a pupil at the Academie Royale, he would have won the Prix de Rome with his Moses and the Daughters of Jethro (untraced), had not Jules Hardouin Mansart, adviser to the Academie, deemed all entries that year unworthy. Nevertheless Pesne left for Italy, making the acquaintance of Jean Raoux in Venice and being allowed the use of a studio in Rome by Charles Porson, Director of the Academie de France. While in Venice, Pesne painted the portrait of Friedrich Ernst von Knyphausen | ||||
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Nachtstuck new24/PESNE, Antoine-883966.jpg Painting ID:: 79275 Visit European Gallery |
1718 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 115 x 146.5 cm cyf | ||
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