The Delicate Precision of Jean-François Léauté In the shifting cultural tides of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century France, few art forms captured the intimate pulse of society as tenderly as the miniature portrait. Among the masters of this diminutive medium, Jean-François Léauté emerges as a captivating figure, a Parisian craftsman whose brushwork bridged the fading elegance of the Rococo era with the burgeoning emotional…