Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Raguenet (1715–1793)

• Was a French painter born in Gentilly.
• He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, actor and painter, and Genevieve Murgues.
• The Raguenets, father and son, put together a veritable portrait of Paris with their many paintings depicting buildings and landscapes in the city.
• A master painter trained at the Académie de Saint-Luc, he was responsible for many "View of Paris" paintings, notably of the Seine, with an almost photographic precision.
• Raguenet owned a small shop for the sale of his art work in the rue de la Colombe on the Île de la Cité.

• One of his patrons was an English, Lord Holland.
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