Jacques-Albert Senave (1758–1823)

• Was a Flemish painter.
• He was born in Lo, Lo-Reninge, Austrian Netherlands.
• After studying painting in the United Provinces, he went to Paris in 1780.
• Among Senave's works is a Parody of Zeuxis which depicts the legend of the Greek artist Zeuxis selecting five female models and combining their finest features into one image of ideal beauty.
• In Senave's painting, the five models are overseen by a procuress, and the painter is accompanied by a dog....
• Art historian Mansfield says the painting "humorously exposes the circuit of aesthetic-erotic-commercial traffic embedded within the Zeuxis myth".

• Senave died in Paris in 1823.

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