Jean-Baptiste Gilles (or Gille; 1680–1762), known as Colson, was a French painter of portraits in miniature and water-colours.
He was born at Verdun, and assumed his mother's surname of Colson, because the theatres of the fairs had brought ridicule upon the name of Gilles.
Colson, who was a pupil of Christophe, and a member of the Academy of St. Luke, died in Paris in 1762.
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