Painting ID:: 39954
Bonaparte Pardoning the Insurgents in Cairo mk155
1808
Oil on canvas
365x500cm
Baron Pierre Narcisse Guerin Paris 1774-Rome 1833
French painter. He won enthusiastic recognition in 1799 for his Marius Sextus (Louvre). A defender of the classicism of J. L. David, he became director of the École de Rome in 1822. He counted among his pupils Delacroix, G??ricault, and Ary Scheffer, who were to launch the romantic school. Bonaparte Pardoning the Insurgents in Cairo mk155
1808
Oil on canvas
365x500cm
