Jean-Baptiste Debret

Jean-Baptiste Debret
Copy by Rodolfo Amoedo of an 1836 portrait by Manuel Porto-Alegre
Born(1768-04-18)18 April 1768
Paris, Kingdom of France
Died28 July 1848(1848-07-28) (aged 80)
Paris, French Second Republic
NationalityFrench
Alma materAcadémie des Beaux-Arts
Known forPainting, Drawing
MovementNeoclassicism
AwardsPrix de Rome
Member of the Academie des Beaux Arts.
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Jean-Baptiste Debret (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist dəbʁɛ]; 18 April 1768 – 28 June 1848) was a French painter, who produced many valuable lithographs depicting the people of Brazil. Debret won the second prize at the 1798 Salon des Beaux Arts.

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