Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet was a French painter He came from an artistic family, one of whom Noel Jouvenet may have taught Nicolas Poussin. He early showed remarkable aptitude for his profession, and, on arriving in Paris, attracted the attention of Le Brun, by whom he was employed at Versailles, and under whose auspices, in 1675, he became a member of the "Académie royale", of which he was elected professor in 1681, and one of the four perpetual rectors in 1707. Wikipedia
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