Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours
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Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours was a Swiss painter from Geneva.
Copy of a self-portrait by Saint-Ours attributed to his daughter, Catherine Saint-Ours
Wrestling at The Olympic Games, 1786–1791, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, 209.5 × 386cm
The Selection of Children in Sparta, small version of 1785, 56 cm (22 in) × 100 cm (39.3 in), Neue Pinakothek, Munich
The "Monumental" version of The Earthquake, (Le Tremblement de terre monumental), 1792–1799, 261 × 195 cm, Geneva.
Joseph-Marie Vien
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Joseph-Marie Vien was a French painter. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791, before it was abolished during the French Revolution.
Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours
…independent Republic. He began studying with his father Jacques (1708–1773) who was an enamel painter. He continued his studies in Paris in 1769, with Joseph-Marie Vien, in whose studio he met David and was exposed to radical political thinking. After winning various lesser prizes, in 1780, he obtained the Prix de Rome…
Portrait of Joseph-Marie Vien by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1784
Signature de Joseph Marie Vien 1799
Two Women Bathing, Joseph-Marie Vien, 1763, Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin
Lover Crowning his Mistress