1716 – 1809

French painter. A winner of the Prix de Rome , he was in Rome at a time (1743-50) that coincided with excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii, and in his lifetime he gained a great reputation (partly self-promoted) as a pioneer of the Neoclassical style. He was enthusiastic for the ideas of Winckelmann, but his classicism was of a very superficial kind, consisting of prim and sentimentalized anecdote or allegory with pseudo-antique trappings ( The Cupid Seller, Château de Fontainebleau, 1763).Show more

10 artworks in collection