Jean-Baptiste Mallet

Jean-Baptiste Mallet (1759, in Grasse – 16 August 1835, in Paris) was a French painter in the Troubadour style.

He originally studied with Simon Julien [fr] in Toulon, then with Pierre-Paul Prud'hon in Paris.

His style shows the strong influence of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jean-Honoré Fragonard (also from Grasse) and Louis Léopold Boilly.

Most of his works were gouaches and watercolors, done in relatively small formats, and consist largely of genre scenes depicting life under the Directorate and the First Empire.

In 1795, he was commissioned by Pierre Didot to provide illustrations for an edition of La Fontaine's Fables.