161 Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, The Return of Marcus Sextus, 1799

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Description: The Return of Marcus Sextus

TitleThe Return of Marcus Sextus

Creator nameGuérin, Pierre

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1799

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions85 7/16 × 95 11/16 in. (217 × 243 cm)

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065587

Accession numberINV 5180; C.312

SubjectsAcademic art, FrenchDeath in artPainting, French--18th centuryNeoclassicism (Art)--France

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9. Last Rites

Thomas E. Crow

Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France

~Girodet died in 1824, at the age of fifty-seven, from a tumor of the bladder. The onset of his final crisis was sudden; it came so quickly that the painter was...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.217-245

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00330.10

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Chapter subject tags:Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis, 1767-1824Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835Painting, French--18th centuryDavid, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Neoclassicism (Art)--FranceBelley, Jean-Baptiste, 1747-1805Portrait painting, French--18th centuryHistory painting, French--19th century

II. The Exemplum Virtutis

Robert Rosenblum

Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art

~THE UNCOMMON heroism of a Hector or a Germanicus, the noble tears of an Andromache or an Agrippina—such high moments from...

Author

Robert Rosenblum

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.50-106

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00288.2

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Chapter subject tags:Neoclassicism (Art)Painting, French--18th centuryGreuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Gros, Antoine-Jean, baron, 1771-1835Painting, British--18th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryDelacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825

Chapter 4: Cannibalism

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France

Robinson Crusoe, a novel of shipwreck, was the book Rousseau recommended above all others for the education of young boys like Emile...

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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.165-235

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00220.005

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Chapter subject tags:Géricault, Théodore, 1791-1824. Raft of the MedusaGéricault, Théodore, 1791-1824History painting, French--19th centuryPainting, French--19th centuryCannibalism in artShipwrecks in artColonialism--France--HistoryRomanticism in art--France--19th century

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