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Louis Gauffier
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Pygmalion and Galatea
Painting ID:: 93902
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Louis Gauffier
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1762-1801
French
Louis Gauffier Gallery
French painter. Following his move to Paris, where he became a pupil of Hugues Taraval and a student at the Academie Royale, in 1784 Gauffier shared the Prix de Rome with Jean-Germain Drouais and Antoine-Denis Chaudet (for sculpture), his own work being Christ and the Woman of Canaan (Paris, Ecole N. Sup. B.-A.). During his time in Rome (1785-9) Gauffier worked hard, but his health was poor and the results variable. On his return to Paris he was accepted (agree) by the Academie as a history painter. Soon after, he returned to Rome in order to escape the worsening situation in Revolutionary Paris, although he continued to send his Neo-classical works to the Salon. In March 1790 he married Pauline Chatillon (d July 1801), a portrait painter whom he and Drouais had taught.. |
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Pygmalion and Galatea |
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1797(1797)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 67.5 x 51.2 cm (26.6 x 20.2 in)
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Related Paintings::.
| Market Scene(Ecce Homo fragment) (mk14) | Dance on the Battery in the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant | The Return of Neptune | |
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