![]() ![]() They’re at once intimate, irreverent: he may be mid-yawn, throwing a smirk and a point like Fonzie, or brushing the haters off.Īnd he had his fair share of haters, probably due to the freewheeling attitude so clearly publicized in his selfies. The renown is well due, his selfies are world class. He was tasked with painting Antoinette in a way that would seduce her future husband, Louis XVI, and later he painted said husband’s last portrait before he was ceremoniously relieved of his head by guillotine.īut Ducreux’s real passion was his “side hustle,” the exuberant selfies which brought him to the internet and across social media platforms. This day job was necessarily creatively stifling, but it did open up some excellent opportunities for Ducreux. ![]() He had a day job, as one might work in a coffee shop, Ducreux was the First Painter to Queen Marie Antoinette. But there’s more to his 15 minutes of fame than a funny self-portrait. His meme-based notoriety means that Ducreux is definitely the most fun artist, living or dead, to Google. ![]() He managed to achieve this pinnacle of celebrity after being dead for two centuries. Joseph Ducreux is internet famous in a realm that transcends the Vine stars and Instagram influencers, he exists up in those dizzying heights of doge and that stoked baby: meme famous. ![]()
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