Jean-Baptiste Collet

Jean-Baptiste Collet was a French painter active between 1762 and 1843. His artistic training took place within the French tradition, where he studied under Jean Bardin. He also received instruction from the renowned artist Jacques-Louis David. These formative relationships with established masters shaped his development as a painter. Collet's career spanned the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a period of significant change in French art. His work remains part of the historical record of French painting from this era.