Jean-Baptiste Madou

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Jean-Baptiste Madou (1836)
Jean Baptiste Madou: patrol ; Belgian volunteers in the streets of Brussels, September 1830

Jean-Baptiste Madou (born February 3, 1796 in Brussels , † April 3, 1877 there ) was a Belgian painter .

Life

Madou first made a name for himself as a lithographer by publishing compilations on Belgian costumes, then a Physionomie de la société en Europe de Louis IX à nos jours (1835-36) a name. The Scènes de la vie des peintres de l'école flamande et hollandaise (1840) are particularly well known . His numerous oil and watercolor paintings mostly deal with genre scenes from an earlier period. Madou drew some lithographs with his painter friend Jean Nicolas Ponsart , with Madou contributing the figures and Ponsart the landscapes.

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SURNAME Madou, Jean-Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1877
Place of death Brussels