2 Quotes & Sayings By Jeanpaul Kauffmann

Jean-Paul Kauffmann was a French painter and printmaker, who worked in a variety of media, including lithography, etching, drypoint, engraving and aquatint. He was born in Paris in 1727 and died there in 1806. He studied art at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. His artistic career was remarkable: he won the gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1751 for his painting The Hesitation before Act Three of "The Marriage of Figaro" (after Mozart), and ten years later he won the same prize for his painting "Le Triomphe de Bacchus" Read more