Jean-Germain Drouais
Jean-Germain Drouais (November 25th 1763 - July 15th 1788), painter French of the school of Jacques Louis David, born from a family of painters with Paris, died at twenty-five years.
He was the son of François-Hubert Drouais, portraitist known.
He received the Prix of Rome in 1784.
The Musée of Louvre has its two principal tables:
- Cananéenne with the feet of Christ
- Marius in Minturnes ; when this last work appeared, it excited a universal enthusiasm, was admired of Goethe, and inspired the tragedy of Antoine-Vincent Arnault on the same subject.
Bibliographical reference
- Patrick Ramade, Catalogs exposure Jean-Germain Drouais, Rennes, Musée of the Art schools, 1985 with the collaboration of Arlette Sérullaz and Governed Michel.
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