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Antoine Pesne

1683 - 1757

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Antoine Pesne (French pronunciation: [pɛːn]) (29 May 1683 – 5 August 1757) was a French-born court painter of Prussia. Starting in the manner of baroque, he became one of the fathers of rococo in painting. His work represents a link between the French school and the Frederican rococo style. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Pesne is the 889th most popular painter (up from 1,025th in 2019), the 2,625th most popular biography from France (up from 2,862nd in 2019) and the 163rd most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Antoine Pesne ranks 889 out of 2,023. Before him are Felix Nussbaum, Grandma Moses, Louise Catherine Breslau, Ma Yuan, Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, and Huang Tingjian. After him are Jacopo Amigoni, Anna Bilińska, Eero Järnefelt, Lee Krasner, Albert van Ouwater, and Abraham Mignon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1683, Antoine Pesne ranks 16. Before him are Christoph Graupner, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Johann David Heinichen, Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Edward Young, and Burkhard Christoph von Münnich. After him are Lorenz Heister, Jonathan Wild, Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Giovanni Poleni, Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, and Mark Catesby. Among people deceased in 1757, Antoine Pesne ranks 14. Before him are Robert-François Damiens, Johann Stamitz, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Siraj ud-Daulah, David Hartley, and 7th Dalai Lama. After him are Amursana, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Edward Vernon, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Johann Samuel König, and Vakhushti of Kartli.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Pesne ranks 2,625 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Meilhac (1831), Blanche of Artois (1248), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Christian Kramp (1760), Alexandre Exquemelin (1646), and Constance, Duchess of Brittany (1161). After him are Petrus Comestor (1100), Paul Féval, père (1816), Michel Sogny (1947), Catherine Breillat (1948), Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1742), and Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes (1578).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Antoine Pesne ranks 163. Before him are Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803), Gustave Boulanger (1824), Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761), Paul Gavarni (1804), Maximilien Luce (1858), and Jacques Villon (1875). After him are Claude Gillot (1673), Abraham Bosse (1604), Laurent de La Hyre (1606), Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825), Paul Émile Chabas (1869), and Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744).

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