Sophie Frémiet
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Sophie Rude was a French painter.
Self-portrait of Sophie Rude, née Frémiet, 1841
Sophie Frémiet, portrait of her husband, François Rude.
Sophie Frémiet served as the model for the figure of The Genius of War, in the Departure of the Volunteers created by her husband, François Rude, on the Arc de Triomphe.
The death of Cenchirias, son of Neptune and the nymph Peirene, 1821–23
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
Sophie Frémiet
…was the assistant curator of the city's museum, a patron of artists and a fervent Bonapartist. Sophie was taught by Anatole Devosge, a former pupil of Jacques-Louis David. Her father supported the work of a young Dijon sculptor, François Rude. In the aftermath of the second Bourbon Restoration in 1815, the Frémiet family…
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)