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Jacques-Luc Barbier-Walbonne (1769 –1860), was a French historical and portrait painter.

Life

Barbier-Walbonne was born at

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in 1769. He was a pupil of

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, and painted several subjects from Roman history, and others of a less heroic kind; also portraits of the distinguished generals of France. In the Gallery of Versailles are portraits, by him, of Moreau and Moncey. He was a soldier during the French Revolutionary period, and was shown wearing the uniform of a lieutenant in a regiment of

hussar A hussar ( , ; hu, huszár, pl, husarz, sh, husar / ) was a member of a class of light cavalry, originating in Central Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. The title and distinctive dress of these horsemen were subsequently widely ...

s in a drawing by

Jean-Baptiste Isabey Jean-Baptiste Isabey (11 April 1767 – 18 April 1855) was a French Painting, painter born at Nancy, France, Nancy. He was a successful artist, both under the First French Empire, First Empire and to the diplomats of the Congress of Vienna. L ...

. He worked as an assistant to

François Gérard François Pascal Simon Gérard (, 4 May 1770 – 11 January 1837), titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a prominent French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was It ...

, and is said to have posed for the figure of Cupid in Gérard's ''Cupid and Psyche'', shown at the Salon in 1798. He died at

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in 1860.

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* 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters 1769 births 1860 deaths People from Nîmes Pupils of Jacques-Louis David 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub