Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau

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Intro

French painter

A.K.A.

Louis-Jean-Jacques Durameau Louis Jean Jacques Durameau Louis Jean Jacques Du Rameau Louis-Jacques Durameau Louis Jean Jacques Rameau Louis Jean Jacques du Rameau

Places

France

was

Painter

Work field

Arts

Gender

Male

Birth

1733

Place of birth

Paris, France

Death

4 September 1796 People who died on this day

Place of death

Versailles, France

Age

63 years

Awards

Prix de Rome

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Biography

Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau, Plafond painting in the Royal Opera of Versailles, ca. 1770

Louis-Jacques Durameau (Paris, 5 October 1733- Versailles, 3 September 1796) was a French painter.

Life

A son of Jacques Durameau (master printer in intaglio) and Marie Rocou (or Rocan), he was intended for an engraver by his father and trained in drawing at the studio of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Defernex. He then entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre. In 1757, he won the Grand prix de Rome, with the subject Élie ressuscite le fils de la Sunamite. He died at the age of 62 of a pulmonary congestion after a trip to Paris on foot.

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