Jean Antoine Laurent

Jean Antoine Laurent (Baccarat, 31 October 1763 – Epinal, 11 February 1832) was a French miniaturist and painter.

Pauline was the elder, Emma was a miniaturist, Paul studied in the Ecole Polytechnique but was expelled in 1814, Jules was a sculptor and director of Epinal Museum.

[2] Lauronce refused to work for the House of Bourbon and so was granted protection by Empress Josephine and Queen Hortense de Beauharnais.

He was a teacher of drawing in the Ecole forestiere of Nancy, director of the drawing school of Epinal, President of the Societe Academique des Enfants d’Apollon and director of the Epinal Museum, town where he lived in 90, rue de Bourbon.

[3] One of the main features of Laurent's works is influenced by the quiet sensitivity propagated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s writings, which repudiated gallantry.