Biography Antoine Gr.

Genea managed to fill his works with true inspiration and a rich multifaceted plot. Publishing the victories of the Napoleonic army, portraits of Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte, created heroic stories and myths. Most of the paintings of Antoine-Jean Grus survived the glory of their heroes, a repeated change in political eras, and even today are the pride of the best museums and exhibition halls of France and other countries.

Antoine-Jean Gro was born in Paris. In the year in the family of a miniature artist Jean-Antoine Gr. At the age of 14, the GRO enters the training of Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David, a French artist and teacher, one of the creators of four historical styles of French art, which significantly influenced the artistic development of Gr. In the year, with the help of J.

David, he runs away from the growing wave of revolutionary terror, for 9 years he lives in Italy, first in Genoa, then in Milan. Napoleon subsequently accepts the artist to his service and gives him orders. According to Streaml Marie-Christ Beyle, “The drawing left by the UTO on the table in the Milan Coffee shop seemed to be a miracle that came off the sky; During the night they made an engraving from him and the next day they sold twenty thousand prints.

” Thanks to the caricatures on the Austrian governor, the French artist becomes famous. Having become an assistant in the commission for the selection and sending of works of art to France, Great travels a lot in Italy and comes to Rome in the spring of the year. After the dissolution of the commission, he receives an officer rank. In the year, the GRO is returning to Paris.

In the year, for the canvas, “Battle of Nazareth” receives a national prize of painting. Despite the fact that the master was not a battalist in the classical sense, his works dedicated to Bonaparte’s military successes confidently win in numerous competitions. In the year, he puts on a Le Salon canvas “Napoleon near patients with a plague in Jaffa”, which had a triumphal success.

In the year, for the work “Napoleon on the battlefield near Eilau,” the emperor, having completed the award ceremony, took off the order of the Legion's Honorary and provided it to the painter. Great becomes a portraitist of the imperial family.

In the year, he receives a state order for the painting of the dome in the Paris Pantheon, completes it in the year. In addition to the famous portraits and battle scenes with the participation of Napoleon, the artist creates a number of portraits of other famous contemporaries “General Durok”, “Portrait of General Lassal”, “Son of General Legrand” and others. During the years of restoration, the artist prefers the academic style, his portraits are most successful.

After a year, he creates paintings for the most part with mythological plots. At that time, the romantic school began to gain popularity. French romanticism ”means not only a literary movement, but also a worldview, an era, school and style, but Antoine-Jean Gro in his late work did not share such manifestations in art. In Le Salon and years, his work was not appreciated, the artist tried to put the picture “Hercules and Diomed” in Le Salon, alas, to no avail.

At the end of his life, Antoine-Jean Ground fell into depression and committed suicide, rushing into the Sena on June 26 in Modon Meudon. Francois Gorard. Chateau de Versailles Antoine-Jean Gros. Prince Boris Yusupov. Bataille des pyramides. Portrait de Francois Girard. Metropolitan Museum Antoine-Jean Gros. Madame Pasteur. Louvre, Paris Antoine-Jean Gros.

Christine Boyer. Sappho a Leucate. Premier Consul Bonaparte. Bonaparte Visitant Les Pestiferes de Jaffa. General Girard Duroc. Pierre Zimmermann. Jerome Bonaparte. General Antoine de Lasalle. Capitulation de Madrid. General Claude Legrand. Sous-Lieutenant Charles Legrand. General Fourmier Sarloveze. Clovis et Clotide. Pantheon, Paris Antoine-Jean Gros.

Joachim murat. General Pierre DARU. General Baston de la Riboisiere et Son fils. Portrait de Comte de la Riboisiere. Private Collection Antoine-Jean Gros. Comte Jean-Antoine Chaptal. Madame Recamier. La Genie de la France. Charlotte Helene Pauline Dessolles. Docteur Clot-by. Musee de Grenoble Antoine-Jean Gros. Hercule et Diomede. Musee des Augustins, Toulouse.