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Last Name Prince

Given Name Jean Baptiste Le

alt. Names J. B. l. P ; Leprince ;

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Year born 1734 in Metz

Year died 1781

Place of death St.-Denis-du-Port

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Education painting under Francois Boucher (1703-1770)

Country of Activity France

Worked for astronomer and explorer Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (1722-1769): Voyage Sibérie (1768) ; Kracheninkow: Description du Kamtchatka ;

Patronage Académie des Sciences ; Catherine the Great ;

Collaborators Caresme de Fécamp ; engraver Jean Michel Moreau jr. ; engraver J.-B. Tilliard ;

Techniques natural, landscape, and astronomical drawing, painting. copperplate engraving, aquatint, and etching

Sample(s) http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:LePrinceKoromyslo.jpg ;

Archival sources Rosenbach Museum Philadelphia ; Pushkin Museum, Moscow ; Louvre, Paris ;

Published sources AKL ; Pinault et al. 1984: 26f. ; Pinault 1991: 72 & 77 ;

other Further Places of Activity: France (Paris), and Russia (St Petersburg, 1757-63 Siberia).

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