About Jean-Antoine Gros
Lived 1732 – 1790 (aged 57). Jean-Antoine Gros was an art collector, painter, pastellist, miniature painter, printmaker and etcher.
Jean-Antoine Gros (1732–1790) was a French painter, father of Antoine-Jean Gros.
Born in Toulouse, Gros married Félicité Labille in 1764, becoming the brother-in-law of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. She died four years later, and in 1770 he remarried, to the painter Pierrette-Madeleine-Cécile Durand. He was active as a miniaturist and pastellist during his career. Some sources give his date of birth as 1725.
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Who was Jean-Antoine Gros?
French painter
When was Jean-Antoine Gros born?
Jean-Antoine Gros was born on 15 October 1732 in Toulouse.
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Jean-Antoine Gros died on 23 March 1790 in Paris.
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Jean-Antoine Gros was an art collector, painter, pastellist, miniature painter, printmaker and etcher.
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