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    Antoine Pesne (French pronunciation: [pɛːn]) (29 May 1683 – 5 August 1757) was a French-born court painter of Prussia. Starting in the manner of baroque...
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    portraits were made of him by many painters and engravers, among them Antoine Pesne, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Johann Georg Ziesenis, Gottfried...
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    Petit's frame contained a portrait of Frederick the Great painted by Antoine Pesne, and remains today in the British Royal Collection. None of Frederick's...
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    masters of the monumental Germanic Rococo are Johann Baptist Zimmermann, Antoine Pesne, Joseph Ignaz Appiani, Franz Anton Zeiller, Paul Troger, Franz Joseph...
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    Fritz Truthfully with a Crooked Beak?—The Pictures Familiar to Us from Pesne to Menzel Don't Show This" (PDF). University of Heidelberg: arthistoricum...
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    Great, with his older sister, Wilhelmine, as children (c. 1715), by Antoine Pesne François Boucher, 1750, Philippe Egalité, then Duke of Montpensier,...
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    architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. Furthermore, the painter Antoine Pesne and even King Frederick himself influenced Knobelsdorff's designs. Famous...
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    Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp A portrait of Joanna, presumably by Antoine Pesne, c.1746 Princess consort of Anhalt-Zerbst Tenure 7 November 1742 – 16...
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    Frederick William I Portrait by Antoine Pesne, c. 1733 King in Prussia Elector of Brandenburg Reign 25 February 1713 – 31 May 1740 Predecessor Frederick...
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    Prince Henry of Prussia Portrait by Antoine Pesne, 1745 Born (1726-01-18)18 January 1726 Berlin, Prussia Died 3 August 1802(1802-08-03) (aged 76) Rheinsberg...
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