Baron Pierre Narcisse Guerin
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Dido and Aeneas
Painting ID:: 43847 new16/Baron Pierre Narcisse Guerin-969349.jpg
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Baron Pierre Narcisse Guerin
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Paris 1774-Rome 1833
French painter. He won enthusiastic recognition in 1799 for his Marius Sextus (Louvre). A defender of the classicism of J. L. David, he became director of the École de Rome in 1822. He counted among his pupils Delacroix, G??ricault, and Ary Scheffer, who were to launch the romantic school. |
Dido and Aeneas |
c. 1815
Oil on canvas,
292 x 390 cm |
Related Paintings::. | Portrait of Louis XV | The Ladies of the Cars | Self-Portrait | |
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