In the history of art, Jean Baptiste Madou is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Jean Baptiste Madou as lithographer, painter (1796-1877).
Jean Baptiste Madou was born at Brussels metropolitan area in 1796. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as painter, lithographer and engraver.
Among his best-known works are Een stroper, door eenen boschwachter en eenige boeren aangehouden, De voorlezer and Vrijage. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in United Kingdom of the Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jean Baptiste Madou died in 1877, aged 81. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Een stroper, door eenen boschwachter en eenige boeren aangehouden
- Notable work: De voorlezer
- Notable work: Vrijage
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