Saturday, December 27, 2025

Jean-Baptiste Santerre
(1651- 1717)

Jean-Baptiste Santer was a French painter and draughtsman of the Style Louis XIV, known for his history paintings, portraits, and portrait-like genre subjects. Considerably influenced by Italian masters of the Bolognese school as well as his French contemporaries, Santerre nonetheless made an original contribution in his art, being among the first French painters to bring Netherlandish influences. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Santerre

Jeune Fille lisant une lettre à la bougie (Young Girl reading a letter by candlelight)
C. 1700
Oil on canvas 
64 x 79 cm
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
https://www.pushkinmuseum.art/reference/classifier/people/1725.php?lang=en

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