Philibert-louis debucourt biography of mahatma

A student, albeit briefly, of the painter Joseph-Marie Vien, Philibert-Louis Debucourt was from an early age determined to make his mark as a genre painter. Agrée at the Académie Royale in 1781, in the same year that he married and obtained lodgings in the Louvre, Debucourt exhibited at the Salons of 1781, 1783 and 1785, becoming a full member of the Académie in 1786. His subjects tended towards charming and intimate depictions of domestic life; as one scholar has noted, ‘Scenes extolling the pleasures of family life abound in Debucourt’s oeuvre.’1 However, the early death of his wife in 1783, leaving behind a young son whom he needed to support, is thought to have led Debucourt to concentrate on his work as a printmaker, since the production of colour aquatints had the potential to earn him a greater income than his paintings. Debucourt’s colour prints of genre subjects of the 1780s were some of the most sign

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