Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (August 15, 1759 – April 13, 1832) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 miniature painter

Painting

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Biography

Augustin was born in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, commonly referred to as Saint-Dié, is a commune in the Vosges department in Lorraine in northeastern France.It is a sub-prefecture of the department.-Geography:...

 and died in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. He first had some lessons from Jean-Baptiste Claudot

Jean-Baptiste Claudot

Jean-Baptiste Charles Claudot, a French painter of landscapes, flowers, and still-life, was born at Badonviller in 1733. Several of his works are in the Museum of Nancy, where he died in 1805. He was the friend of Girardet and Joseph Vernet....

 and Jean Girardet in Nancy. After a few months in Dijon

Dijon

Dijon is a city in eastern France, the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.Dijon is the historical capital of the region of Burgundy. Population : 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 for the greater Dijon area....

 in 1780 he arrived in Paris in 1781 where he soon earned fame.

During the French Revolution

French Revolution

The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...

 days he travelled to Brittany

Brittany

Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

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 and Germany

Germany

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Back in Paris in 1800 he married one of his pupils, Pauline Ducruet. She was 22 years younger than him and herself a painter in a similar style.

In 1806 Jacques Augustin was appointed official painter to the court. Later on (1814) he became painter to the king.

He died of cholera

Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine that is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting. Transmission occurs primarily by drinking or eating water or food that has been contaminated by the diarrhea of an infected person or the feces...

 in Paris in 1832 and was buried at Père Lachaise cemetery.

Famous people painted by Augustin

• Marie-Antoinette (1755–1793)
• Napoleon I
  Napoleon I
  Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...
  
   and his family
• Louis XVIII, king of France
• Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, duke of Orleans (1773–1850)
• Marquise de Ségonzac
• Madame Récamier (1777–1849)
• Madame Van Hée born Dewinck, wife of the banker
• General Laconpérie
• Charles Antoine Callamard (1776–1821) Paris, Louvre
  Louvre
  The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...
  
  
• Louis Hector Chalot de Saint-Marc, bishop
• Charles-Ferdinand, duke of Berry (1778–1820)
• Antoine Denis Chaudet (1763–1810), sculptor
• Madame de Kercado
• Louis Joseph Auguste Coutan (1779–1830)
• Marie Joseph Georges Rousse, the former president of the Chambre des notaires de Paris
• Anne de Dorat, countess Coiffier de Moret
• Anne Josephe Theroigne de Mericourt
  Anne Josephe Theroigne de Mericourt
  Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt , a French woman who was a figure in the French Revolution, was born at Marcourt , a small town in Luxembourg province in modern Belgium, on the banks of the Ourthe...
  
   (1762–1817), a French Revolution
  French Revolution
  The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
  
  pasionaria

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