Jean-Baptiste Mallet

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'''Jean-Baptiste Mallet''' (1759, [[Grasse]] - 16 August 1835, [[Paris]]) was a French painter in the [[Troubadour style]].

== Life and work ==
He originally studied with in [[Toulon]], then with [[Pierre-Paul Prud'hon]] in [[Paris]]. His style shows the strong influence of [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]], [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]] (also from Grasse) and [[Louis Léopold Boilly]]. He is also known to have studied 17th-century Dutch painting.

Most of his works were [[gouaches]] and [[watercolor]]s, done in relatively small formats, and consist largely of [[Genre art|genre]] scenes depicting life under the [[French Directory|Directorate]] and the [[French First Empire|First Empire]]. In 1795, he was commissioned by [[Pierre Didot]] to provide illustrations for an edition of [[La Fontaine's Fables]]. Preparatory sketches were made, but never used.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2IFWFEi The Morgan Library and Museum.]</ref>

He was an exhibitor at every [[Salon (Paris)|Salon]] from 1793 to 1827; winning a second-class medal in 1812 and the first-class in 1817.<ref>[http://bit.ly/2GtrwT5 Mallet] @ MasterArt.</ref>

His paintings were very popular and are an indispensable source of information about interior decorations and furnishings of the period. Most of his works were also available as prints.

Outside of France, his works may be seen at the [[National Gallery of Art]] and [[LACMA]].

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[[Category:French genre painters]]
[[Category:French watercolourists]]
[[Category:People from Grasse]]

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