Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (1738-1826),

• Was a writer, illustrator and painter of French history.
• By 1780 he was an official painter of the King of France.
• He was the father of artist Élise Bruyère.
• His most famous work was a representation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen made in 1789.
• He also designed the suite of tapestries of the four contingents (1790–91).