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Jean Baptiste Mallet
(1759-1835)
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A Nursery Scene
Jean Baptiste Mallet was an 18th century French painter. He studied in Toulon under Simon Julien, and later under Pierre Prud'hon in Paris . Mallet won a medal at the Salons of 1812 and 1817, and exhibited there frequently from 1793 until 1827.
Tea Time
Mallet is best known for his interior and genre scenes and in fact executed very few portraits. Mallet instead preferred to paint nudes and pictures of bathing beauties and mythological scenes.
The Little Fixer
Mallet is renowned still today by art historians for his treatment of curtains and fabrics in his composition. His paintings have been compared to the techniques used by Dutch masters for interiors and furnishing, and are still highly admired today.
Gothic Ballroom
During his lifetime, Mallet found a great deal of success and many of his paintings were copied or made into prints. Still wondering about an 18th century French painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Jean-Baptiste Mallet.
