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Four parts of the world

Academician / French / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Les Quatre parties du monde” of 1760 by Jean-Jacques Bachelier.  The French artist was thirty-six when this masterpiece was created.  He had been a member of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture for eight years.  Five years later he founded an art school in Paris.  He died in 1806 in his natal city of Paris.  This work is in the Royal Collection of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

Reproduction for sale on Zazzle