Jean-Charles Frontier
Illustration — Time Unveils the Truth, black and white chalk drawing from 1755, now in the Museum Kunstpalast Jean-Charles Frontier was born in Paris in 1701. He was a pupil of Claude-Guy Hallé, and took the first prize at the Academy in 1728, with a picture of Ezekiel abolishing Idolatry and establishing the Worship of the true God. His works also include the 1743 The Nativity.
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Jean-Charles Frontier
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- Born
- Jean-Charles Frontier was born on 22 August 1701. · Paris.
- Died
- Jean-Charles Frontier died on 2 September 1763. · Lyon.
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- France
- Occupation
- painter
- Honours
- Prix de Rome
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Time Unveils the Truth, black and white chalk drawing from 1755, now in the Museum Kunstpalast Jean-Charles Frontier was born in Paris in 1701. He was a pupil of Claude-Guy Hallé, and took the first prize at the Academy in 1728, with a picture of Ezekiel abolishing Idolatry and establishing the Worship of the true God. His works also include the 1743 The Nativity.
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He was received as an academician in 1744, with the picture Prometheus bound on Caucasus, now in the Louvre. He exhibited at the Salon from 1743 to 1761, and became director of the Academy of Lyon, where he died in 1763.
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu is recorded as having studied under Jean-Charles Frontier. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris, Rome and Lyon. Work by Jean-Charles Frontier is recorded in the collections of Beaux-Arts de Paris, Museum Baron Martin and Museum of Grenoble. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome.
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Jean-Charles Frontier was born on 22 August 1701.
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Jean-Charles Frontier died on 2 September 1763.
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