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 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} ]