Artist

Joseph-Siffred Duplessis

1725–1802 · born in Carpentras · died in Versailles

Joseph-Siffred Duplessis was a French painter born in Carpentras in 1725. He became one of the best portrait painters in Paris, painting Louis XVI and the American Benjamin Franklin, and he was the curator of the royal paintings at Versailles. He died there in 1802.