Antoine François Callet (1741–1823)

• Was a French painter of portraits and allegorical works.
• He won the grand prix de Rome in 1764 with Cléobis et Biton conduisent le char de leur mère au temple de Junon (Kleobis and Biton dragging their mother's cart to the temple of Juno).
• He was accepted by the Académie des beaux arts in 1779.
• He exhibited at the Salon from 1783 onwards.
• He painted the centre of the ceiling of the grande galerie of the palais du Luxembourg, with a composition entitled L'Aurore.

• Under the French Consulate and the First French Empire he painted several more allegories, including an Allégorie du dix-huit brumaire ou la France sauvée and an Allégorie de la bataille d'Austerlitz, 1806. 

• Callet died in 1823 in Paris.

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