Show French Artist Patronized by the Court Jean Honore Eight Eight- century French master is best known for his sumptuous pictures pictures pic pic- tures of the extravagances of Pic-j Pic the French court in the years before the revolution notes a writer in the St. St Louis Post Dispatch born in 1732 enjoyed fame and the patronage of wealthy members of the French court in the days before the revolution He decorated decorated decorated dec dec- orated the apartment of Mme du duBarry duBarry duBarry Barry and one of his paintings acquired acquired acquired ac ac- ac- ac by King Louis XV in 1765 when was admitted to the academy is in the I Louvre i Jouvre The artist fled from Paris in 1793 I and when he returned early in the Nineteenth century lived in obscurity obscurity obscurity ity until his death in 1806 He studied under Chardin and Boucher and mastered Boucher's style so thoroughly that he was permitted permitted permitted per per- to do reproductions of his work Later after he had won the Prix de Rome was influenced influenced influenced in in- by the paintings of Tiepolo |