A man places laurels on a woman in yellow in a pastoral scene in this artist's A Lover Crowning His Beloved.  
A man places laurels on a woman in yellow in a pastoral scene in this artist's A Lover Crowning His Beloved.  One of this artist's four works for the Chateau of Choisy sees several of the title figure's servants carrying bread as onlookers make pleading gestures, his poorly received Marcus Aurelius Distributing Alms.  Although his Caesar Landing at Cadiz was roundly criticized, a work exhibited at the same salon that depicted an angel in blue sweeping down to crown a man extending his arm and holding a cane on a portico that was much praised.  Besides painting St Denis Preaching the Faith in France, he was admired by the Comte de Caylus and adapted a Carlo Nolli engraving based on a recently discovered antiquity where a woman is making an obscene hand gesture to literally buy the titular personification of love.  Joshua Drapkin called him "the first French artist of [the 18th century] to embrace the Neo-classical ideal".  For 10 points, name this artist behind the Cupid Seller, a teacher of ? Jacques-Louis David.
A man places laurels on a woman in yellow in a pastoral scene in this artist's A Lover Crowning His Beloved.  
{Joseph}-{Marie Vien}