Jean-Adrien Guignet (1816 – 1854) was a French orientalist painter. Guignet was born in Annecy and grew up in the city of

Autun Autun () is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France. It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Ro ...

. He was a friend of Hippolyte Michaud. He was a rather popular orientalist painter in his time, and was especially commanded for his Egyptian scenes. He died in Paris.

Works

;Musée des beaux-arts de Beaune * ''Soldat gaulois'' (circa 1854) * ''Agar et Ismaël'' ;

Musée du Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

* ''Cambise et Psamménite'' * ''Épisode de la retraite des Dix-Mille'' (circa 1842) ;

Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen is an art museum in Rouen, in Normandy in north-western France. It was established by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1801, and is housed in a building designed by and built between 1877 and 1888. Its collections include ...

* ''Joseph expliquant les rêves du pharaon'' ; Musée Rolin * ''Xerxes à l'Hellespont'' * ''Autoportrait'' ("Self-portrait") File:Adrien Guignet Joseph et Pharaon.jpg, ''

Joseph Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

expliquant les rêves du pharaon'',

File:Adrien Guignet - Retreat of the ten thousand.jpg, ''Retreat of the

Ten Thousand The Ten Thousand ( grc, οἱ Μύριοι, ''oi Myrioi'') were a force of mercenary units, mainly Greeks, employed by Cyrus the Younger to attempt to wrest the throne of the Persian Empire from his brother, Artaxerxes II. Their march to the Bat ...

, at the

Battle of Cunaxa The Battle of Cunaxa was fought in the late summer of 401 BC between the Persian king Artaxerxes II and his brother Cyrus the Younger for control of the Achaemenid throne. The great battle of the revolt of Cyrus took place 70 km north of Bab ...

'' File:Adrien Guignet - Xerxes at the Hellespont.jpg, '' Xerxes at the

Hellespont The Dardanelles (; tr, Çanakkale Boğazı, lit=Strait of Çanakkale, el, Δαρδανέλλια, translit=Dardanéllia), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli from the Gallipoli peninsula or from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (; ...

'' File:Meeting Between Cambyses II and Psammetichus III.jpg, ''Meeting Between Cambyses II and

Psammetichus III Psamtik III ( Ancient Egyptian: , pronounced ), known by the Graeco-Romans as Psammetichus or Psammeticus (Ancient Greek: ), or Psammenitus (Ancient Greek: ), was the last Pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt from 526 BC to 525 BC. Most of ...

'' after the

Battle of Pelusium The Battle of Pelusium was the first major battle between the Achaemenid Empire and Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt, Egypt. This decisive battle transferred the throne of the Pharaohs to Cambyses II of Persia, marking the beginning of the Achaemenid ...

. Louvre Museum.

References

1816 births 1854 deaths Orientalist painters 19th-century French painters People from Annecy People from Autun {{France-painter-19thC-stub