Jean-Baptiste Debret

Jean-Baptiste Debret
Copy by Rodolfo Amoedo of an 1836 portrait by Manuel Porto-Alegre
Born	(1768-04-18)18 April 1768 Paris, Kingdom of France
Died	28 July 1848(1848-07-28) (aged 80) Paris, French Second Republic
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Académie des Beaux-Arts
Known for	Painting, Drawing
Movement	Neoclassicism
Awards	Prix de Rome Member of the Academie des Beaux Arts.
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Jean-Baptiste Debret (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist dəbʁɛ]; 18 April 1768 – 28 June 1848) was a French painter, who produced many valuable lithographs depicting the people of Brazil. Debret won the second prize at the 1798 Salon des Beaux Arts.^[1]