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Sebastien Bourdon (1616-1671)

• Was a French painter and engraver.
• His chef d'œuvre is The Crucifixion of St. Peter made for the cathedral of Notre Dame.
• Bourdon was born in Montpellier, France.
• He was the son of a Protestant painter on glass.
• He managed to get to Rome in 1636; there he studied the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and Caravaggio.
• Bourdon spent most of his working career outside France, where, though he was a founding member of the Académie royale.
• His success required the establishment of an extensive atelier, where his pupils included Nicolas-Pierre Loir and Pierre Mosnier.
• He died in Paris in 1671.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: The Finding of Moses, c. 1655-1660.
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