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3 unusual facts about Piat Sauvage


Piat Sauvage

In 1808 he returned to Tournai to became the director of the Academy of Drawing.

His appointment as Royal artist did not keep him from joining the popular side of the French Revolution.

He also painted the Sept Sacrements, or Seven Sacraments, in the choir of the Tournai cathedral in order to replace the superb tapestries stolen by the Jacobins during the revolution.



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