Joseph Boze

Self-portrait, 1782

Joseph Boze (7 February 1746 – 25 January 1826) was a French portrait and miniature painter born at Les Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône). He painted the portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and, being devoted to the court and the royal family, narrowly escaped the guillotine. He was thrown into prison, but the fall of Robespierre set him at liberty, and he came to England, where he remained until the restoration. He died in Paris in 1826. His own portrait is among his drawings in the Louvre.

• Work by Joseph Boze
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  Portrait of Jean-Paul Marat, now at the Carnavalet Museum, 1793 (Carnavalet Museum)

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  Portrait of Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, marquis de Castries, now at the Palace of Versailles (after 1816)

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  Portrait of Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan, 1786 (Palace of Versailles)

References

This article incorporates text from the article "BOZE, Joseph" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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