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JEAN BAPTISTE SANTERRE (1650-1717)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 191 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN
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BAPTISTE SANTERRE (1650-1717)
  , French painter, was born at Magny, near
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Pontoise, and was a pupil of Bon Boulogne . He began
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life as a portrait-painter, and enjoyed for
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half a century a
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great reputation as a painter of the nude . He died at Paris on the 21st of November 1717 . His " Portrait of a Lady in Venetian Costume " (Louvre), and his " Susanna at the Bath" (Louvre, engraved by Porporati), the diploma
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work executed by him in 1704, when he was received into the Academy, give a good impression of Santerre's taste and of his elaborate and careful method .

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