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Laneuville was exclusively active as a portrait painter. His works from the French
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Longueville from 1797 to 1806. Théodore Géricault's uncle, Jean-Baptiste Caruel, lived and worked at the HÎtel de Longueville from 1791 to 1804, allowing us to reliably date Théodore Géricault's first connection to Jean-Louis Laneuville to this period.
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