David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Sapho, Phaon et l’Amour (Sappho, Phaon and Cupid) 1809 Oil on canvas, 225.3 x 262 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg David is considered the founder and leading light of Neoclassicism, which dominated art in the late 18th and…
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Persée et Andromède (c.1819)
Antoine-Jean Gros
(1771–1835) Baron Antoine-Jean Gros The artist’s works: Autoportrait c.1790 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Bonaparte au pont d’Arcole late 1796-early 1797 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Bonaparte, Premier Consul, après la bataille de Marengo 1803 Musée du Louvre, Paris Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa…