Jean Baptiste Mauzaisse

Place: Corbeil

Born: 1784

Death: 1844

Biography:

Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse was a French painter and lithographer.
Born in Corbeil, he began studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1803. His first painting, L'Arabe pleurant son coursier (The Arab Mourning his Steed), won him a first class medal at the exhibition at the Salon in 1812. Mauzaisse's specialty was painting historical subjects, especially battle scenes, but he also painted portraits. In 1822, he was commissioned to decorate several ceilings in the Louvre.
He died in Paris.

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