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Joseph Ducreux

1735 - 1802

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Joseph, Baron Ducreux (26 June 1735 – 24 July 1802) was a French noble, portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver, who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France, and resumed his career at the conclusion of the French Revolution. He was made a baron and premier peintre de la reine (First Painter to the Queen), and drew the last portrait ever made of Louis XVI before the king's execution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Ducreux has received more than 895,710 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Joseph Ducreux is the 1,521st most popular painter (down from 1,386th in 2019), the 3,903rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,671st in 2019) and the 244th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Joseph Ducreux ranks 1,521 out of 2,023Before him are Francesco Pesellino, Kanō Tan'yū, Qian Xuan, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, and Fyodor Alekseyev. After him are Toyohara Chikanobu, Charles Demuth, Helena Westermarck, Stanisław Witkiewicz, Josef Abel, and Gustaf Lundberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Joseph Ducreux ranks 22Before him are Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Ignacy Krasicki, Dmitry Levitzky, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, József Alvinczi, and Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. After him are Ivan Kulibin, Paul Kray, Ulrika Pasch, Tobias Furneaux, Domenico Vandelli, and Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Among people deceased in 1802, Joseph Ducreux ranks 24Before him are August Batsch, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Joseph Duplessis, Daniel Morgan, and Thomas Girtin. After him are Ivan Argunov, Leopold I, Prince of Lippe, Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, Charles Leclerc, Corona Schröter, and Samuel Arnold.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Ducreux ranks 3,903 out of 6,770Before him are René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1694), Jean Broc (1771), Gaucelm Faidit (1170), Jean Stablinski (1932), Yann LeCun (1960), and Denis Lavant (1961). After him are Jane Dieulafoy (1851), Marcel Moyse (1889), Abel Bonnard (1883), Émile Allais (1912), Bernard Cazeneuve (1963), and Lili Damita (1904).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Joseph Ducreux ranks 244Before him are Louis Hersent (1777), Luc-Olivier Merson (1846), Paul César Helleu (1859), Charles Laval (1862), Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867), and Jean Broc (1771). After him are Alphonse Legros (1837), Henri Harpignies (1819), Maxime Maufra (1861), Ernest Hébert (1817), Isaac Oliver (1556), and Isidore Pils (1813).