See also: Guerin

Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin (Paris, May 13rd 1774 - Rome, July 6th 1833) is a painter French member of the Institut. It practices a made art of facilities in the style Néo-classique and had a brilliant career which made it become director of the Villa Médicis in Rome.

Biography

Admitted at 11 years at the school of the royal Academy of painting and sculpture, it will be there the pupil of Taraval, Nicolas Guy Brenet then of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. At twenty-three years, it obtains the Prix of Rome. Its first remarkable table is the Return of Marcus Sextus , which had, to the Salon of 1799, a success without example. A little later it painted its Orphée with the tomb of Eurydice and the Offrande with Esculape , one of its best fabrics.

It went then in Italy where it spent several years. Of return to Paris, it reappeared with the Living room of 1810 with three tables: the Dawn removing Céphale , gracious composition which was coldly accommodated; Andromaque and Pyrrhus , theatrical and cold production, and Bonaparte forgiving with revolted Cairo , fabric slightly carried out, which gave place to critical sharp. This same year, Guerin opened, in Paris, a very attended workshop soon, from where left the romantic burning: Géricault, Scheffer, Leon Cogniet, Orsel, Paul Huet or Delacroix.

Among remarkable works that Guerin produced then, we will mention Clytemnestre and Didon and Énée , whose subject was very sharp with the Living room of 1817. Professor at the School of the fine arts in 1814, member of the Institute in 1815 (armchair 9), it accepted, in 1822, the direction of the Académie from France to Rome, which it kept until in 1828.

Its compositions, for the majority devoted to the history and inspired by topics borrowed from antiquity or the theater, do not miss size. One finds purity in contours there, of the harmony in the color, the taste in the adjustments.

Works

  • Young girl in bust , 1794, hands on the chest (Louvre)

  • the return of Marcus Sextus, proscribed Sylla which finds his dead wife and her daughter with despair , 1799, (Museum of Louvre)
  • Dawn removing Céphale , (Museum of Louvre)
  • Autoportrait , (Delacroix museum)
  • Bonaparte made thanks to revolted of Cairo, October 23rd, 1798 , 1808, (museum Versailles castle)
  • Bonaparte forgiving with revolted of Cairo , (museum of the fine arts of Caen)
  • Andromaque and Pyrrhus , 1813, (Louvre), (museum of the Art schools of Bordeaux)
  • Phèdre and Hippolyte , 1815, (Louvre), copy (museum of the Art schools of Bordeaux)
  • Enée and Didon , known as Enée telling in Didon misfortunes of the town of Troy , 1815, draft & painting (Museum of Louvre)
  • Shepherds with the tomb of Amyntas , (Louvre)
  • Come and Adonis ,
  • Young woman in bust , 1812 (Louvre)
  • Portrait of Chateaubriant on bottom of mountainous landscape ,
  • Love and Omphale , (Louvre)
  • Henri of Vergier known as Henri of Rochejacquelein , 1817 (Museum of Cholet)
  • Louis Duverger, marquis of Rochejaquelein (1777-1815), Vendean general, 1819, (Museum of Cholet)
  • Decoration of the ceiling of the Apartments of Anne of Austria , 1800 (Louvre)
  • Philotas , (draft), (museum of the Art schools of Valencians)
  • the death of the general Lannes (duke of Montebello) , (museum of the Art schools of Valencians)
  • Homère charms Glaucus by its songs , (museum of the Valencian Art schools of )
  • the death of Germanicus , (Musée Magnin) Dijon
  • Portrait of a member of the forwarding of Egypt , (Magnin museum) Dijon
  • the Death of Priam , drawing (Louvre)
  • the Death of Caton , drawing (Louvre)
  • hesitant Clytemnestre before striking Agamemnon deadened , (Louvre)
  • Sainte Genevieve , (castle of Compiegne)
  • the Offering with Esculape (museum of the Art schools of Arras)

Source

  • New illustrated Larousse , 1898-1907, publication in the public domain.

  • Meeting of the national museums .

Bibliographical references

  • Philippe Border, the death of Brutus of Pierre-Narcisse Guerin , Musée of the French revolution, Vizille, 1996, ISBN 2-909170-06-3.

  • Josette Bottineau and Elisabeth Foucart-Walter, the inventory after-death of Pierre-Narcisse Guerin , Company of the history of French art, Files of French art, New period - Volume XXXVII, Trarit of union, Florence Hatier, Mothe-Achard, 2004, ISBN 2-9523522-0-8.

  • (rédition) Books of the French Drawing n°13. Pierre-Narcisse Guerin (1774-1833), (Edition Gallery of Bayser) 2006

  • Academy of France at Rome-Company of the history of French art, Files of French art, Correspondence of the directors of the Academy from France to Rome , New series XIX° century-Volume IV, Pierre-Narcisse Guerin 1823-1828 , Correspondence published by Antoinette the Norman-Romain, François Fossier and Mehdi Korchane with the collaboration of Isabelle Chave, Bookstore the Hyphen, Rome, 2005, ISBN 2-9523522-0-8.

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