Antoine-Jean Duclaux (26 July 1783,

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

- 21 March 1868, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon) was a French landscape and animal painter of the Lyon School.

Life

The Duclaux family suffered under the

Reign of Terror The Reign of Terror (french: link=no, la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, ...

and were hunted out of Lyon« Antoine-Jean Duclaux – Peintre, dessinateur et graveur lyonnais », by Evelyne Pansu and Françoise Dupuis-Testenoire. In édition Plaquette d’exposition des Beaux Arts – Lyon 1990. They took refuge at Charrecey in Burgundy where they held the Chandelux estate. However, they quickly fell on hard times and had to rely on neighbours' charity. Many relations were executed by guillotine and firing squad, including two of the painter's brothers. Aged 17, Antoine was sent to work as a shop boy, but around 1805 he had the chance to leave for

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

as secretary to general Fursy Compère, who he had met on Napoleon's trip to Lyon as first consul - Compère had offered him Duclaux's first painting, showing a horse. Duclaux spent two years at the court of

Joseph Bonaparte it, Giuseppe-Napoleone Buonaparte es, José Napoleón Bonaparte , house = Bonaparte , father = Carlo Buonaparte , mother = Letizia Ramolino , birth_date = 7 January 1768 , birth_place = Corte, Corsica, Republic of ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duclaux, Antoine 1783 births 1868 deaths People from Saône-et-Loire French landscape painters 19th-century French painters French male painters Animal artists 19th-century French male artists