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Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier

French painter

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Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier
Bust of Le Barbier (détail)
Born	11 November 1738 Rouen, France
Died	7 May 1826 Paris, France
Nationality	French
Known for	Painter, illustrator, writer and philosopher
Notable work	Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Movement	Orientalist

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (born in Rouen on 11 November 1738 – died in Paris on 7 May 1826) was a writer, illustrator and painter of French history. By 1780 he was an official painter of the King of France.^[1]

He was the father of artist Élise Bruyère.

Work[edit]

His most famous work was a representation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen made in 1789. He also designed the suite of tapestries of the four contingents (1790–91).^[2]

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  Africa from a set of The Four Continents
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  Asia from a set of The Four Continents
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  Turkish Bathscape 1785, illustration from the book, The Harem
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  The Hammam 1785
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  A Spartan Woman Giving a Shield to Her Son], before 1826
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  Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash with touches of watercolor (circa 1765 –66)
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  Drawing, Porcelain Candlestick, 1770–1780
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  Drawing, Design for a Bronze Candlestick, ca. 1800

Select list of work

• Courage des femmes de Sparte se défendant contre les Messéniens, Musée du Louvre, Paris;^[3]
• Étude de femme en fureur, Musée MagnindeDijon;^[4]
• Henri IV et Sully à Fontainebleau, Musée des beaux-arts de Pau;
• Jupiter endormi sur le mont Ida, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris;
• La Grotte d’Égérie, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen;
• Le Vieux Mari, Musée CantinideMarseille;
• Les Amants surpris, Musée Cantini de Marseille;
• Martyre de saint Sébastien, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen;
• Scène d’Amérique du Nord, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen;
• Un Canadien et sa femme pleurant sur le tombeau de leur enfant, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen,^[5] tableau interprété en gravure par François Robert Ingouf;^[6]
• Le Courage héroïque du jeune Désilles, le 31 août 1790, à l'Affaire de Nancy, Vizille, musée de la Révolution française;
• L'Apothéose de Rameau, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Toul;
• Portrait de Madame Roland, Musée d'art de Toulon;
• L'Apothéose de Lulli, Musée d'Art et d'histoire de Toul;
• La Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789, Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

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