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

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