JOUVENET, Jean-Baptiste 1697
Oil on canvas, 424 x 312 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris Descent from the Cross s French painter (b. 1644, Rouen, d. 1717, Paris).
French painter, one of a family of painters. He worked in Paris in the studio of Charles Le Brun, whose manner he acquired and whose favor at court he shared. He is best known for his religious paintings; the most important are the series of four canvases for St. Martin des Champs, including the Miraculous Draught of Fishes
