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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

1758 - 1823

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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ pɔl pʁydɔ̃], 4 April 1758 – 16 February 16, 1823) was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits such as Madame Georges Anthony and Her Two Sons (1796). He painted a portrait of each of Napoleon's two wives. He was an early influence on Théodore Géricault and Constance Mayer, who may have influenced him as well, due to their intimate working relationship. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon is the 603rd most popular painter (up from 631st in 2019), the 1,838th most popular biography from France (up from 1,860th in 2019) and the 117th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon ranks 603 out of 2,023. Before him are Giuseppe Cesari, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Pierre Auguste Cot, Roelant Savery, Joseph Wright of Derby, and Eugène Carrière. After him are Helen Frankenthaler, Juan de Flandes, Oswald Achenbach, Paula Rego, Cornelis van Haarlem, and Vlaho Bukovac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1758, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon ranks 17. Before him are Franz Joseph Gall, Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, John Armstrong Jr., Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Osman Pazvantoğlu, and Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Carl Friedrich Zelter, Charles Lee, Carle Vernet, 8th Dalai Lama, Ryōkan, and Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. Among people deceased in 1823, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon ranks 15. Before him are André-Jacques Garnerin, Ann Radcliffe, Rafael del Riego, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Edmund Cartwright, and Karl Leonhard Reinhold. After him are Markos Botsaris, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg, Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, and Iosif Igelström.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon ranks 1,838 out of 6,770. Before him are Eugène Carrière (1849), Miou-Miou (1950), Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728), Charles Dupuy (1851), Isabelle of France (1225), and Georges Canguilhem (1904). After him are Blanche of Bourbon (1339), Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770), Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (1213), Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), Jules Romains (1885), and Nicolas Catinat (1637).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon ranks 117. Before him are Jules Dupré (1811), Charles-André van Loo (1705), Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848), Constant Troyon (1810), Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), and Eugène Carrière (1849). After him are Léon Cogniet (1794), Jules Breton (1827), Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Jean-Paul Laurens (1838), Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761), and Adrien Manglard (1695).

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