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Jean Pierre Granger

Header: Jean Pierre Granger
Also known as: Jean Pierre Granger; primary name: Granger, Jean Pierre; other name: Granger, Jean Perrin
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; French; Male
Life dates: 1779-1840
Biography: Neoclassical painter (history, portraits). Sometimes improperly called Jean Perrin Granger. After being trained by engraver Louis-Jean Allais he joined the studio of painter Jean-Baptiste Regnault (q.v.), and later became the pupil of Jacques Louis David (q.v.). Beat Ingres to win the Prix de Rome in 1800. Married Marie Jeanne Catherine Delaigle. Their daughter, Eléonore Palmyre Granger (1819-1874) was the goddaughter of Ingres, who portrayed her (drawing, 1843, now in the Maison de Victor Hugo); she married writer Paul Meurice in 1843.

Title: Vénus d'Alexandria Troas |
Museum number: 1903,0812.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Jacques AvrilIntermediary draughtsman:Jean Pierre Granger |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

Title: Le Tibre Musée Royal |
Museum number: 1868,0822.1004 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Nicolas LaugierIntermediary draughtsman:Jean Pierre Granger |
Production date: 1803-1820

Title: Mr Drovetti et sa suite mesurant un fragment de colosse dans la haute Egypte |
Museum number: 2011,7036.2 |
Producer name: After:Jean Pierre GrangerPrinted by:Godefroy Engelmann I |
Production date: 1819