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jean baptiste deshays de colleville

Born 1729 Died 1765 Works span 1759–1763

Jean Baptiste Deshayes de Colleville: Bridging Classical Grandeur and Romantic Emotion Jean Baptiste Deshays de Colleville (1729 – 10 February 1765) stands as a pivotal figure in French Romanticism, yet his artistic legacy is rooted firmly within the stylistic conventions of the preceding Baroque and Neoclassical eras. Born in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, Deshays’s early training under his father, Jean Dominique Deshays—a minor Rouen…

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1759

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1763

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jean baptiste deshays de colleville

1729 – 1765

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