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Aeneas Offering Presents to King Latinus and Asking Him for the Hand of His Daughter by Jean-Baptiste Regnault

Aeneas Offering Presents to King Latinus and Asking Him for the Hand of His Daughter

Jean-Baptiste Regnault · 1778

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Artist
Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Date
1778
Location
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ART MOVEMENTS
Classicism
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Jean-Baptiste Regnault

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, a leading French Neoclassical painter, famously rivaled Jacques-Louis David and won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1776.

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