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Antoine-Francois Callet

Louis XVI King of France and Navarre Print by Antoine-Francois Callet

Louis XVI King of France and Navarre

Ceres Begging for Jupiter's Thunderbolt after the Kidnapping of Her Daughter Proserpine Print by Antoine-Francois Callet

Ceres Begging for Jupiter's Thunderbolt after the Kidnapping of Her Daughter Proserpine

A young lady before a statue of Cupid Print by Attributed to Antoine-Francois Callet

A young lady before a statue of Cupid

A Bacchante playing the Cymbals before a Statue of Pan Print by Attributed to Antoine-Francois Callet

A Bacchante playing the Cymbals before a Statue of Pan

Antoine-François Callet (1741–1823, Paris), generally known as Antoine Callet, was a French painter of portraits and allegorical works, who acted as official portraitist to Louis XVI.

He won the grand prix de Rome in 1764 with Cléobis et Biton conduisent le char de leur mère au temple de Junon (Kleobis and Biton dragging their mother's cart to the temple of Juno). He was accepted by the Académie des beaux arts in 1779, with his entry piece being a portrait of the comte d'Artois, and received with his allegory Le printemps (Spring) in 1781. He exhibited at the Salon from 1783 onwards. He painted the centre of the ceiling of the grande galerie of the palais du Luxembourg, with a composition entitled L'Aurore (Aurora). Under the French Consulate and the First French Empire he painted several more allegories, including an Allégorie du dix-huit brumaire ou la France sauvée (Allegory of 18 Brumaire, or France saved - 1801, château de Versailles) and an Allégorie de la bataille d'Austerlitz (Allegory of the Battle of Austerlitz - 1806, château de Versailles).


References

Marc Sandoz, Antoine-François Callet, 1741-1823, Ed. Éditart - Quatre Chemins, Tours, 1985.

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External links

La Tribune de l'Art, on a document by Antoine Callet at auction, later bought by the Parisian gallery Didier Aaron.

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