Painting ID:: 43940
The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus 1829
Oil on canvas,
197 x 147 cm
Francois Joseph Navez 1787-1869
French
Francois Joseph Navez gallery
Francois-Joseph Navez (Charleroi, 1787 - Brussels, 1869) was a Belgian neo-classical painter.
A pupil of Jacques-Louis David, he spent five years in Italy between 1817 and 1822.
He was a very successful portrait painter. He also painted many mythological and historic subjects.
The orientalist painter Jean-Francois Portaels was his pupil (and son-in-law). The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus 1829
Oil on canvas,
197 x 147 cm
