In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755

Private collection

portrait

This is an autograph replica of reduced scale of the original in the Chteau du Malmaison, Rueil. The event depicted is a reading of Voltaire's L'Orphelin de la Chine (a tragedy about Ghengis Khan and his sons) that was first produced in 1755.

About the Artist

Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier

1743 – 1824

French painter who studied under Vien. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1772 with The Children of Niobe Killed by Apollo and Diana (Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts). Lemonnier became an Academician in 1789 and exhibited historical and mythological subjects at the Salon from 1785-1814. He was administrator of the Gobelins Factory between 1810 and 1816.

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