Jean Louis Ducis
Illustration — Louis Ducis, Bianca Cappello Fleeing with Her Lover • Illustration — Le Tasse at his sister Cornelia's in Sorrento (1812) Louis Ducis (14 July 1775 – 2 March 1847) was a French painter and student of Jacques-Louis David.
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Jean Louis Ducis
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- Born
- 1775 · Versailles.
- Died
- 1847 · rue de Lille.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
- Teachers
- Jacques-Louis David
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Louis Ducis, Bianca Cappello Fleeing with Her Lover • Illustration — Le Tasse at his sister Cornelia's in Sorrento (1812) Louis Ducis (14 July 1775 – 2 March 1847) was a French painter and student of Jacques-Louis David.
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Training under Jacques-Louis David is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Jean Louis Ducis is recorded in the collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Napoleon museum Arenenberg, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Musée Thomas-Henry and Musée de l'Évêché de Limoges.
Ducis was born in Versailles. He was instructed by David, whom he partly imitated in his historical pieces, besides which he devoted himself also to genre and portrait painting. His Mary Stuart and The Début of Talma were formerly in the Luxembourg Gallery. He died in 1847 in Paris.
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- 1.Archives départementales des Yvelines, État-civil numérisé de la commune de Versailles, paroisse Notre-Dame, registre de l'année 1775, p.60 de la numérisation (foliotée p.53 sur le registre papier). Son prénom de baptême est bien Jean-Louis, et c'est également ainsi que le dénomme son oncle l'écrivain dans sa correspondance.
- 2.Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Savoie. le site du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques - cths.fr.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Charles Gabet, Dictionnaire des artistes de l'école française au XIXe siècle, Paris, 1831) p. 231.
- Charles de Beaumont, Jean-Louis Ducis - peintre 1775-1847, 1900.
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