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See also: born at See also: Rouen, came of a See also: family of artists, one of whom had taught Poussin
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He early showed remarkable aptitude for his profession, and, on arriving in See also: Paris, attracted the See also: attention of Le Brun, by whom he was employed at See also: Versailles, and under whose auspices, in 1675, he became a member of the Academie Royale, of which he was elected professor in 1681, and one of the four perpetual rectors in 1707
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The See also: great mass of See also: works that he executed, chiefly in Paris, many of which, including his celebrated Miraculous Draught of Fishes (engraved by See also: Audran; also Landon, Annales, i
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42), are now in the Louvre, show his fertility in invention and execution, and also that he possessed in a high degree that general dignity of arrangement and See also: style which distinguished the school of Le Brun
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See also: Jouvenet died on the 5th of See also: April 1717, having been forced by paralysis during the last four years of his See also: life to See also: work with his See also: left See also: hand
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See Mem. ined. acad. See also: roy. de p. et de sc., 1854, and D'Argenville, Vies See also: des peintres
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