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Taunay, Nicolas-Antoine
(b Paris, 11 Feb 1755; d Paris, 20 March 1830). French painter. He was the son of Pierre-Henri Taunay (1728–81), a painter–enameller at the Sèvres factory, and entered the studio of Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié at the age of 13. Later he worked in the studios of Nicolas-Guy Brenet and Francesco Casanova. With a group of friends that included Jean-Louis Demarne, Lazare Bruandet and Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, he made trips to the forests of Saint-Germain, Fontainebleau and Compiègne to learn to draw directly from nature. He visited the Dauphiné and Switzerland in 1776 with Demarne. That same year he made vignette illustrations for an erotic book, Journée de l’amour by Charles-Simon Favart (1710–92) and others. Taunay exhibited landscape paintings at the Salon de la Jeunesse in 1777 and 1779 and at the Salon de la Correspondance in 1782.
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