Jean desprez biography
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Louis Jean Desprez
French painter and architect (1743–1804)
Louis Jean Desprez (occasionally but incorrectly Jean Louis Desprez) (May 1743–18 March 1804) was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life.[1][2][3]
Biography
Desprez, who was born in Auxerre in Bourgogne, France.
Jean desprez biography
He studied architecture and was awarded the Great Prize of the Académie royale d'architecture in 1770. He traveled frequently to Italy and was associated with Piranesi in Rome. He came to the attention of King Gustav III of Sweden, who offered him a two-year contract as director of scenic decorations at the new Stockholm Opera founded by the King two years earlier.
His first task there was the decorations for the new opera Gustaf Wasa (with a libretto authored by the King in collaboration with Johan Henric Kellgren and music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann).[4][5][2]
As an architect,