Antoine-Jean Gros
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Antoine-Jean Gros was a French painter of historical subjects. He was granted the title of Baron Gros in 1824.
Portrait by François Gérard, c. 1791
Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole (1796), Palace of Versailles
Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa (1804)
Portrait of Madame Récamier (1825)
Jacques-Louis David
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Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste aw
Antoine-Jean Gros
…16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was granted the title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French Revolution. Forced to leave France, Gros moved to Genoa. His portrait of French…
Self-Portrait, 1794 (Musée du Louvre)
Portrait of David as a youth, circa 1765, by his tutor Joseph-Marie Vien
Mademoiselle Guimard as Terpsichore, 1774–1775, an early work
Equestrian portrait of Stanisław Kostka Potocki (1781)