Artist
Pierre-Antoine Baudouin
French, 1723–1769
Pierre-Antoine Baudouin was a French Romanticism painter. 10 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art, most of them gouaches. Pierre-Antoine Baudouin was born in Paris.
Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (French pronunciation: ; 17 October 1723 – 15 December 1769) was a French painter. He worked in the same Rococo style of his father-in-law, François Boucher.
Overview
Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ɑ̃twan bodwɛ̃]; 17 October 1723 – 15 December 1769) was a French painter. He worked in the same Rococo style of his father-in-law, François Boucher.
Life
The son of Michel Baudouin (1692–1754), an engraver of little note, he was born in Paris in 1723. He was a pupil and imitator of Boucher, whose younger daughter he married in 1758, and through whose influence he was elected an Academician in 1763, as a miniature painter. He presented at the occasion his drawing of the Hyperides pleading the cause of Phryne before the Areopagus, now in the Louvre. Baudouin executed idyllic and erotic subjects in water-colours and crayons, but rarely painted in oil. He died in Paris in 1769.
Works by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin
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