Jacques-Philippe Caresme

Jacques-Philippe Caresme (1734 –96) was a French historical painter. 

Life
Caresme was born in Paris in 1734.  He was probably a pupil of Charles-Antoine Coypel, and was admitted into the Academy while still young, but expelled eight years later.  In 1781, when a royalist, he composed an allegorical design in commemoration of the birth of the Dauphin, and in 1794, after he had become an ardent republican, he presented  the Commune of Paris with a drawing
representing Joseph Chalier, the tyrant of Lyons, going to execution: both of these were engraved.  He also painted a large Nativity of the Virgin for Bayonne Cathedral.   He engraved, from his own designs, The Execution of the Marquis de Favras, February 19, 1790, and The Market-Women going to Versailles to compel the King to return to Paris, Oct. 5th, 1789. 

He died in Paris in  1796. 

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Category:18th-century French painters
Category:French male painters
Category:1734 births
Category:1796 deaths
Category:Artists from Paris