French painter born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, whose painting characterized him as one of the greatest French Romantic painters. He began to study painting (1815) with Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a renowned academic artist. He soon joined the romantics, such as the painters Théodore Géricault and Richard Bonington, the composer Chopin and the writer George Sand. In London (1825) he came into contact with the English J. M. W. Turner, John Constable and Sir Thomas Lawrence, which influenced his technique, which acquired greater freedom, representing a break with the neoclassical style that prevailed in France.
At the height of his style, he traveled for six months (1832) through Morocco, where he executed a series of drawings and watercolors, and became interested in mural painting. He decorated the King's Hall at the Bourbon Palace (1836), the Library at the Luxembourg Palace (1861) and the Chapel of the Angels of the Church of Saint-Sulpice (1861), a work that would consecrate him as the last great muralist of tradition baroque. He died in Paris, and among his most famous paintings were Dante and Virgil in Hell (1822), The Chios massacre (1824), The death of Sardanápalo (1827), Freedom leading the people (1830) and Women of Algiers (1834). His peculiar use of color paved the way for the great Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters, including Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin and Picasso.
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
Order F - Biography - Brazil School
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