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Antoine-Jean Gros (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twanʒɑ̃ gʁo]; 16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was granted the title of Baron Gros in 1824. [1] [2] Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French Revolution.
Antoine-Jean Gros was declared the winner on 13 June, and completed Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau during the winter of 1807–1808. [5] According to François de Vergnette, Denon stipulated much of what was to be featured in the painting, including "the moment to be depicted, the number of 'extras', the cadavers in the foreground, and ...
Jean-Antoine Gros (1732–1790) was a French painter, father of Antoine-Jean Gros. Born in Toulouse, Gros married Félicité Labille in 1764, becoming the brother-in-law of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. She died four years later, and in 1770 he remarried, to the painter Pierrette-Madeleine-Cécile Durand.
Since Gros, the artist, was 32 years old at the time at the composition, the shy, naked prisoner behind the patient raising his arm in front of Napoleon may in fact be a hidden self-portrait. Alternatively, it could reflect the soldier's regiment since the 32e demi-brigade was one of the French units committed to the Egyptian campaign.
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Many critics deplored the painting's despairing tone; the artist Antoine-Jean Gros called it "a massacre of art". [11] The pathos in the depiction of an infant clutching its dead mother had an especially powerful effect, although this detail was condemned as unfit for art by Delacroix's critics.
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The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art).For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists.