Nicolas-René Jollain (1732-1804)

• Was a French painter.
• Jollain belongs to a family of artists which includes the painter of King Nicolas-René Jollain, known as the Old Man.
• His family includes, among others, Pierre Jollain, also a painter, as well as draftsmen and engravers.
• Nicolas-René Jollain was perhaps first trained by a member of his family.
• He then entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre.
• Second at the Prix ​​de Rome, in 1754, behind Jean-Pierre Chardin, son of the painter Jean Siméon Chardin.
• Jollain was admitted to the Académie in 1765 and received in 1773 with Le Charitable Samaritain as a reception piece.
• Jollain remains a specialist in great historical painting: he takes part in several major decorative projects, including those of the Château de Bellevue and the Petit Trianon.
• His students, among others, the engraver Jean-Baptiste Cazin, René Louis Maurice Béguyer de Chancourtois, Jean-Frédéric Schall and Anne-Louis Girodet.
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