About Antoine Renou
Lived 1731 – 1806 (aged 74–75). Antoine Renou was a French painter and playwright.
Antoine Renou, l'Étoile du matin ou Castor,Paris, palais du Louvre, galerie d'Apollon.
Antoine Renou (1731 in Paris – 13 December 1806) was an 18th–19th-century French painter and playwright.
Antoine Renou was a member then perpetual secretary of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
He created L'Étoile du matin (1781), one of the plafonnantes paintings of the galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre Palace in Paris, which was his reception piece to the Académie. it was the counterpart to the Soir by Charles Le Brun.
Renou also authored some fifteen theatre plays.
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Who was Antoine Renou?
French painter (1731-1806)
When was Antoine Renou born?
Antoine Renou was born in 1731 in Paris.
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Antoine Renou died on 13 December 1806 in former 10th arrondissement of Paris.
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Antoine Renou was a painter and playwright.
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Antoine Renou was French.
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