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Jean Racine, French playwright: he employed Alexandrine verses significantly.

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anonymous: Jean Racine (1639-1699)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
After Jean-Baptiste Santerre  (1651–1717)  wikidata:Q548150
 
After Jean-Baptiste Santerre
Description French painter and artist
Date of birth/death 23 March 1651 Edit this at Wikidata 21 November 1717 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Magny-en-Vexin Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1666 Edit this at Wikidata–1717 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q548150
Title
Jean Racine (1639-1699)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date circa 1698-1750 (the date of 1673 (sic), which appears in his portrait, corresponds to that of his election at the French Academy)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 63 cm (24.8 in); width: 52 cm (20.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,63U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,52U174728
institution QS:P195,Q377066
Dépôt du
institution QS:P195,Q2946
Accession number
MV 2926
Object history Fait partie d'un ensemble de 94 portraits d'académiciens commencé en 1685 à l'initiative de l'abbé de Dangeau, alors directeur. Collection de l'Académie française. Saisie révolutionnaire le 24 juillet 1794. Passé au musée des Monuments français. Remis au bibliothécaire de l'Institut le 12 septembre 1803. Donné par l'Institut à Louis-Philippe pour les Galeries historiques de Versailles en 1839. 1850 : aile du Nord, attique, salle 141 dite "des Académiciens". 1855 et 1861 : aile du Midi, attique, salle 152. Mentionné en réserve, 5 août 1971. Dépôt à Paris, Institut de France, Académie française, le 22 juillet 1987.
References chateauversailles.fr ; photo.rmn.fr ; Joconde database: entry 000PE005967
Source/Photographer http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=89722
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