Antoine-François Callet

Antoine-François Callet (1741–1823), generally known as Antoine Callet, was a French painter of portraits and allegorical works, who acted as official portraitist to Louis XVI.

He won the grand prix de Rome in 1764 with Cléobis et Biton conduisent le char de leur mère au temple de Junon (Kleobis and Biton dragging their mother's cart to the temple of Juno). He was accepted by the Académie des beaux arts in 1779, with his entry piece being a portrait of the comte d'Artois, and received with his allegory Le printemps (Spring) in 1781. The same year he exhibited his Portrait of the Comte de Vergennes featuring the French Foreign Minister the Count of Vergennes at the Salon of 1781 at the Louvre.

He painted the centre of the ceiling of the grande galerie of the palais du Luxe…

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