Jean Alaux
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Jean Alaux, called "le Romain", was a French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome from 1846 to 1852.
Jean Alaux (1818) by Ingres
Jean Alaux, The Battle of Denain (1839)
The Baptism of Clovis (1825)
The Storming of Valenciennes, 1837
Pierre Lacour
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Pierre Lacour, originally Delacour was a French painter.
Jean Alaux
…and the second of four brothers who all became painters. He received his first lessons in art from his father, but went on to a formal training with Pierre Lacour and later with Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. In 1807 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1808 he entered works for the Prix de Rome…
Self-portrait, with his family (1798)
Achilles Deposits Hector's Corpse at the Feet of Patroclus (Prix de Rome)