Jean-Charles Frontier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Jean-Charles Frontier
- Jean-Charles Frontier was born in Paris in 1701.
- He was a pupil of Claude-Guy Hallé, and took the first prize at the Academy in 1728, with a picture of Ezekiel abolishing Idolatry and establishing the Worship of the true God.
- He was received as an academician in 1744, with the picture Prometheus bound on Caucasus, now in the Louvre.
- He exhibited at the Salon from 1743 to 1761, and became director of the Academy of Lyon, where he died in 1763.
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