Joseph Baron Ducreux (1735 – 1802)

• Was a French noble, portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver.
• Baron Ducreux was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France.
• Born in Nancy.
• He trained as the only student of the pastelist Maurice Quentin de La Tour.
• At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Ducreux traveled to London.
• Jacques-Louis David became one of Ducreux's associates when the latter returned to Paris in 1793.
• Ducreux's residence became an informal salon for artists and musicians, who commissioned portraits from him.
• His eldest son Jules was a painter.
• His eldest daughter, Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, also became a painter.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Joseph Baron Ducreux, Self-Portrait, Yawning, by 1783
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