He delivered a dramatic oration at the funeral of his friend Girodet, whose death inspired his change in style.
This artist attempted to return to his earlier style with such paintings as Cupids Stung by a Bee and Hercules and Diomedes, whose bad reception led to this man's death by drowning. He delivered a dramatic oration at the funeral of his friend Girodet, whose death inspired his change in style. A man in green crouches at the feet of a horse in his painting of the aftermath of a winter battle, while another canvas shows a nude black man trampled by an oncoming army. This artist of The Battle of Aboukir showed his patron in The Battle of Eylau holding a flag on the bridge of Arcole. He's best known for a canvas showing a commander touching a sick man at the plague house in Jaffa. FTP, name this French Neo-Classicist who made his reputation on heroic paintings of Napoleon in the early 1800s.
This artist attempted to return to his earlier style with such paintings as Cupids Stung by a Bee and Hercules and Diomedes, whose bad reception led to this man's death by drowning.
Baron Antoine-Jean {Gros} [or {Jean-Antoine Gros} ]