Jean-Baptiste Massé
Illustration — Portrait by Louis Tocqué, 1754 (engraved by Johann Georg Wille) Jean-Baptiste Massé (29 December 1687, in Paris – 26 September 1767, in Paris) was a French miniature painter, engraver, and draftsman, best remembered as the court painter of Louis XV, for training Jean-Étienne Liotard and Cornelius Høyer, and for his volumes on the works of Charles Le Brun titled Galerie de Versailles (produced 1732–1753).
Also recorded as Jean Baptiste Masse · Jean Baptiste Massé · Maffé · B. Maffé
Jean-Baptiste Massé
Johann Georg Wille / After Louis Tocqué · Scan: Sperreau2 · Public domain
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- France
- Occupation
- artist · painter · engraver
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Portrait by Louis Tocqué, 1754 (engraved by Johann Georg Wille) Jean-Baptiste Massé (29 December 1687, in Paris – 26 September 1767, in Paris) was a French miniature painter, engraver, and draftsman, best remembered as the court painter of Louis XV, for training Jean-Étienne Liotard and Cornelius Høyer, and for his volumes on the works of Charles Le Brun titled Galerie de Versailles (produced 1732–1753).
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The recorded working language is French. Work by Jean-Baptiste Massé is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, National Gallery of Victoria, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes and Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
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1687
Jean-Baptiste Massé born at Paris.
1767
Jean-Baptiste Massé died at Paris.
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