Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
From 1822 to 1828 Guérin was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome.
1801
Portrait of Guérin by Robert Lefèvre.
Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
From 1822 to 1828 Guérin was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome.
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three grands prix offered in 1796, in consequence of the competition not having taken place since 1793. In 1799, his painting Marcus Sextus (Louvre) was exhibited at the Salon and excited wild enthusiasm. Guérin on this occasion was publicly crowned by the president of the Institute, and went to Rome to study under Joseph-Benoît Suvéest
In 1800, unable to remain in Rome on account of his health, he went to Naples, where he painted the Grave of Amyntas.
These paintings suited the popular taste of the First Empire, being highly melodramatic and pompously dignified. His style changed to accord with popular taste.
In Aeneas Relating to Dido the Disasters of Troy (Louvre), Guérin adopted a more sensuous, picturesque style. On returning to Paris in 1828, Guérin, who had previously been made chevalier of the order of Saint Michel, was ennobled.
He now attempted to complete Pyrrhus and Priam, a work which he had begun at Rome, but in vain.
His health had finally broken down, and in the hope of improvement he returned to Italy with Horace Vernet. Shortly after his arrival at Rome Baron Guérin died, on 6 July 1833, and was buried in the church of Louisiana Trinité de Monti by the side of Claude Lorrain. Many artists studied with Guérin, among them Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, Ary and Hendrik Scheffer.
In 1802 Guérin produced Phaedra and Hippolytus (Louvre). In 1810, after his return to Paris, he again achieved a great success with Andromache and Pyrrhus (Louvre). And in the same year also exhibited Cephalus and Aurora (Louvre) and Bonaparte and the Rebels of Cairo (Versailles). The Restoration brought to Guérin fresh honours. He had received from the first consul in 1803 the cross of the Legion of Honour, and in 1815 Louis XVIII named to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Guérin was commissioned to paint for the Madeleine a scene from the history of Street Louis, but his health prevented him from accomplishing what he had begun, and in 1822 he accepted the post of director of the French Academy in Rome, which in 1816 he had refused.
The figure of Orestes naked
A sculpture workshop
Sorrow
The shepherds in the tomb of Amyntas
Pyrrhus and Andromache
Clytemnestra
Man draped in antique, standing next to a seat
Study for the Death of Lucretia
The Artist's Daughter
Partial study of the composition of the Return of Marcus Sextus
Andromache and Astyanax
Study of the head of Andromache
Study the figure of Pyrrhus
Young woman
Sappho on the Leucadian Cliff
Study the figure of Clytemnestra
Self Portrait
Aurora and Cephalus
Napoleon Bonaparte Pardoning the Rebels at Cairo
Sappho
Study for the painting Phaedra and Hippolytus
Pyrrhus and Andromache
The Wedding of Alexander the Great and Roxana
Philetus teacher Daphnis and Chloe
Death of Marshal Lannes, Duke of Montebello
Portrait of Louis du Vergier
Study the figure of Hermione and sketches of the figure of Pyrrhus
Phaedra and Hippolytus
Andromache and Pyrrhus
Idler
The Death of Cato of Utica
The Return of Marcus Sextus
Woman holding a child and seeing the shadow of figures embracing
Portrait of Jean Lannes
Aeneas tells Dido the misfortunes of the Trojan city
Vigilant One
The Death of Priam
Carle Vernet and classical figure composition
Clytemnestra hesitates before killing the-sleeping agamemnon
Portrait of Chateaubriand backdrop of mountain scenery
Aurora and Cephalus 2
Henri de La Rochejaquelein, leader of the revolt in the Vendee
Death of Cato of Utica
The figure of Orestes, standing draped
Portrait of a Young Girl
Study of a young man seen in chest
Bonaparte in Cairo
The Death of Brutus
Morpheus and Iris
Daphnis and Chloe
