Jean-Antoine Gros, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Antoine Gros

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1725

Place of Birth: Toulouse, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1790

Profession: visual artist, art collector

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Jean-Antoine Gros (1740–1790) was a French painter, father of Antoine-Jean Gros. Born in Toulouse, Gros married Félicité Labille in 1764, becoming the brother-in-law of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.
She died four years later, and in 1770 he remarried, to the painter Pierrette-Madeleine-Cécile Durand.
He was active as a miniaturist and pastellist during his career.
Some sources give his date of birth as 1725.