Charles-Philippe Larivière
Charles-Philippe Larivière (28 September 1798 in Paris – 29 February 1876 in Paris) was a French academic art, academic painter and lithographer. Biography A talented student of Paulin Guérin, Girodet-Trioson and Antoine-Jean Gros, he was admitted to the école des Beaux-Arts in 1813 and won second prize in the Prix de Rome in 1819 then a médaille d'encouragement in 1820. In 1824, he won first prize in the Prix de Rome with a painting of ''The Death of Alcibiades'', thus allowing him to stay in Rome at the Villa Medici from 1824 to 1830. Receptive to the sensibilities of the Romanticism, Romantic school but formed within the discipline of classicism, he became an official artist specialising in history paintings of public events and battles of the Ancien Régime (such as the Battle of the Dunes (1658), Battle of the Dunes) and the medieval period (such as :File:Schlacht von Montgisard 2.jpg, Montgisard and :File:Battle of Castillon.jpg, Castillon). However, he also produ ...
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