Jean-François Garneray (1755 in

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– 11 June 1837 in

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) was a French painter. He was a student of

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

Children

His three sons were: *

Ambroise Louis Garneray Ambroise Louis Garneray (19 February 1783 – 11 September 1857) was a French corsair, painter and writer. He served under Robert Surcouf and Jean-Marie Dutertre, and was held as prisoner-of-war by the British for eight years after being ca ...

(1783–1857), sea painter * Auguste-Siméon Garneray (1785–1824),

troubadour style Taking its name from medieval troubadours, the Troubadour Style (french: Style troubadour) is a rather derisive term, in English usually applied to French historical painting of the early 19th century with idealised depictions of the Middle Ages a ...

painter * Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray (1787–1858), painter

Selected works

* ''The

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visits a hut, led by the Duc de Montausier'' - oil on canvas, 113 by 147.6, signed and dated ''aged 72 years'', exhibited at the 1827

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with the caption ''He took advantage of the emotion which caused the young prince to show unaccustomed attention to the misery reigning in this poor man's house, in order to dispose his soul to pity for them and to relieve them for one day'', sold for 95,000 euros by the Hampel auction house in

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on 16 June 2010 as lot 350 *'' Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Milhaud'' (

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) - this was long attributed to Garneray's teacher David, due to a dedication reading ''Au conventionnel Milhaud, son collègue, David-1793'' (''To the Convention-member Milhaud, his colleague David-1793''), but in 1945 Gaston Brière reattributed it to Garneray. A

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of the same subject, 9 cm in diameter and signed ''Garneray Ventôse, l'An 2 de la République française'' (''Year 2 of the French Republic''),Lot 57 in the ''liquidiation Founés'', sold 27 June 1935, Paris,

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. confirmed this attribution.

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