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Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas (1791–1834) was a French painter and

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. Thomas mentored under

François-André Vincent François-André Vincent (; 30 December 1746 – 4 August 1816) was a French neoclassical painter. Biography Vincent was born in Paris in 1746, the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent. He studied under Joseph-Marie Vien and was ...

, and later studied at the

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. Thomas lived and traveled around Italy, which inspired many of his works. He specialized in oil paintings, often depictions of Italian daily life or

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. He was also commissioned to paint a number of religious works for various churches. In 1816 he won the Prix de Rome with his piece ''Oenone Refusing to Help the Wounded Paris''. He spent two years studying art in Rome and returned to Paris in 1818. Between 1819 and 1831 he exhibited his paintings at Salons, however today he is best known for his series of lithographs, ''One Year in Rome and Its Environs''. Thomas' style is characterized as

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.** ** Campbell, Richard J. & Carlson, Victor. “Visions of Antiquity Neoclassical Figure Drawings” Los Angeles County Museum of Art & The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1993. 262. . Thomas Prix de Rome

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19th-century French painters French male painters 1791 births 1834 deaths 19th-century French male artists Lithographers {{France-painter-stub