Bénigne Gagneraux (1756 at

Dijon Dijon (, ; ; in Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Digion'') is a city in and the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eas ...

– 1795), was first instructed in the school at Dijon under

François Devosge François Devosge, François III Devosge or Claude François III (25 January 1732, Gray, Haute-Saône - 22 December 1811, Dijon) was a French portraitist and history painter. Among his students were François Rude, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon and Claude ...

, from whence he proceeded to Rome, where he acquired a reputation by his picture of the ''Meeting of Gustavus III. of Sweden with Pope Pius VI.,'' which is now in the King's Palace at Stockholm. In the

Dijon Museum Dijon (, ; ; in Burgundian: ''Digion'') is a city in and the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earliest archaeological finds ...

are pictures of ''Soranus and Servilius,'' ''Battle of Senef,'' ''Passage of the Rhine by the French Army under Condé,'' a ''Bacchanal,'' a ''Cavalry Charge,'' and a ''Triumph of Neptune.'' Owing to the disturbances in Rome he quit that city, and retired to Florence, where he died in 1795. In the

Uffizi The Uffizi Gallery ( ; , ) is a prominent art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums and the most visited, it is also one of th ...

at Florence are his own portrait, a ''Battle Scene,'' and a ''Lion Hunt''.

Bibliographie

*Pierre Rosenberg (dir.), Frederick Cummings, Robert Rosenblum et Antoine Schnapper, De David à Delacroix : La peinture française de 1774 à 1830, Paris, Éditions des musées nationaux, 1974, 702 p. (, notice BnF no FRBNF34574367). * Sylvain Laveissière, Bénigne Gagneraux (1756-1795) : un peintre bourguignon dans la Rome néo-classique, Éditions De Luca, 1983.

References

* 1756 births 1795 deaths 18th-century French painters French male painters Artists from Dijon Prix de Rome for painting 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub