Portrait Of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
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''Portrait of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin'' is an 1801
portrait painting Portrait painting is a Hierarchy of genres, genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commissio ...
by the French
artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...
Robert Lefèvre Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre (, 24 September 1755, in Bayeux – 3 October 1830, in Paris) was a French painter of portraits, history paintings and religious paintings. He was heavily influenced by Jacques-Louis David and his style is ...
. It depicts his fellow painter
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin Pierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin (13 March 1774 – 6 July 1833) was a French painter, born in Paris. Biography A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three ''grands prix'' offered in 1796, in consequence of the competitio ...
, then known for his neoclassical history scenes. Guérin, who would later count
Théodore Géricault Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is '' The Raft of the Medusa''. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romanti ...
and
Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( ; ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French people, French Romanticism, Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: ...
amongst his pupils, is depicted in the elegant, fashionable early
Empire style The Empire style (, ''style Empire'') is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 duri ...
. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1801 at the
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in
Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
. Today it is in the collection of the
Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans The Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans is a museum in the city of Orléans in the Loiret department and the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. Founded in 1797, it is one of France's oldest provincial museums. Its collections cover European art ...
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* Chastel, André. ''L'art français: Le temps de l'éloquence''. Flammarion, 1993. * Crow, Thomas. ''Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France''. Yale University Press, 2006. * Le Bourhis, Katell (ed.) ''The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815''. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. 1801 paintings Paintings by Robert Lefèvre Oil on canvas paintings 19th-century portraits Artworks exhibited at the Salon of 1801 {{1800s-painting-stub