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French Rococo Era Painter, 1733-1808
French painter, draughtsman, etcher and landscape designer. He was one of the most prolific and engaging landscape painters in 18th-century France. He specialized in architectural scenes in which topographical elements derived from the buildings and monuments of ancient and modern Italy and of France are combined in often fantastic settings or fictitious juxtapositions. The fluid touch and rich impasto employed in his paintings
Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre in Ruins AG
1796
Oil on canvas, 114,5 x 146 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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