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Antoine-Jean Gros (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twanʒɑ̃ gʁo]; 16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was granted the title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French Revolution.
Antoine-Jean Gros (16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835), titled as Baron Gros in 1824, was a French painter. His work was in the genres of history and neoclassical painting. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French Revolution.
- French
- March 16, 1771
- Paris, France
- June 25, 1835
Antoine-Jean Gros, French Romantic painter principally remembered for his historical pictures depicting significant events in the military career of Napoleon. The elegance, richness, and dramatic power of these works influenced other painters, including Eugene Delacroix.
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The son of parents who were both painters of miniature portraits, Antoine-Jean Gros was born in Paris in 1771. At the age of fifteen he became one of the first pupils of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) on the latter's return from Italy after his completion of the Oath of the Horatii.
One of Jacques-Louis David’s (1748–1825) most famous pupils, and known as the painter of the Napoleonic epic, Antoine-Jean Gros is rightly considered a forerunner of Romanticism. Early on, his drawings, more so than his paintings, began to reveal a gradual shift away from David’s teachings, leading to a definitive break with neoclassical ...
Leading the Revival of Realism. GROS, ANTOINE JEAN, BARON (1771—1835), French painter, was born at Paris in 1771. His father, who was a miniature painter, began to teach him to draw at the age of six, and showed himself from the first an exacting master. Towards the close of 1785 Gros, by his own choice, entered the studio of David, which he ...
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A few of his Gros’ famous Napoleonic paintings can be viewed in the Empire Rooms: Napoleon’s Speech to his Army before the Battle of the Pyramids (1809); the Interview between Napoleon I and Francis II of Austria After the Battle of Austerlitz (1806-1812); Napoleon During the Surrender of Madrid (1809-1810).
