Jacques-Philippe Caresme, a French historical painter, was born in Paris in 1734. He was doubtless a pupil of Charles Antoine Coypel

Charles-Antoine Coypel

Charles-Antoine Coypel was a French painter, art commentator, and playwright. He lived in Paris. He was the son of the artist Antoine Coypel and grandson of Noël Coypel. Charles-Antoine inherited his father’s design and painting duties as premier peintre du roi at the French court when his father...

, and was admitted into the Academy

Académie de peinture et de sculpture

The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture , Paris, was founded in 1648, modelled on Italian examples, such as the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Paris already had the Académie de Saint-Luc, which was a city artist guild like any other Guild of Saint Luke...

 whilst still young, but expelled eight years later in consequence of misconduct in some pecuniary transaction. In 1781, when a royalist, he composed an allegorical design in commemoration of the birth of the Dauphin, and in 1794, after he had become an ardent republican, he presented to the Commune of Paris

Paris Commune

The Paris Commune was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between anarchists and Marxists had taken place, and it is hailed by both groups as the first assumption of power by the working class during the Industrial Revolution...

 a drawing representing Joseph Chalier

Joseph Chalier

Joseph Chalier was a French Revolutionist.As a young man, Chalier's family hoped he would take a career in the church. But instead he became a partner in a law firm in Lyon. Because of his job with the firm, he traveled to Levant, Italy, Spain and Portugal. While living in Paris in 1789, he became...

, the tyrant of Lyon

Lyon

Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

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going to execution: both of these have been engraved

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

. He also painted a large picture of the 'Nativity of the Virgin ' for the Cathedral of Bayonne. Caresme died in Paris in 1796. There are in the Nantes Museum

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

The Fine arts Museum of Nantes is an art museum in Nantes, France.The museum was created in 1801 with the purchase of the Cacault collection and was located in is actual Palais des Beaux-Arts since 1900....

 a 'Holy Family,' and in the Bordeaux Museum

Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine arts museum of the city of Bordeaux, France. Established in 1801 it is one of the largest art galleries of France outside Paris. The museum is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux. Its collections regroup paintings,...

a sketch of 'Bathers,' dated 1780. He engraved after his own designs, 'The Execution of the Marquis de Favras, February 19, 1790,' and 'The Market-Women going to Versailles to compel the King to return to Paris, Oct. 5th, 1789.'