Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

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Pierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin
Portrait of Guérin by Robert Lefèvre (1801)
Born(1774-03-13)13 March 1774
Paris, France
Died6 July 1833(1833-07-06) (aged 59)
Rome, Papal States
NationalityFrench
Known forPainting
Notable workJeune fille en buste

Pierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin (13 March 1774 – 6 July 1833) was a

French painter born in Paris
.

Biography

Portrait of Guérin by François Bouchot (1830)

A pupil of

Sulla's proscription returning to Rome
to find his wife dead and his house in mourning – in which an allusion was found to the turmoil of the French Revolution.

Guérin on this occasion was publicly crowned by the president of the Institute, and went to Rome to study under

Aurora and Cephalus (Pushkin Museum) and Bonaparte and the Rebels of Cairo (Versailles). These paintings suited the popular taste of the First Empire
, being highly melodramatic and pompously dignified.

The Restoration brought to Guérin fresh honours; he had received from the first consul in 1803 the cross of the

Louis XVIII named to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. 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.

Guérin was commissioned to paint for the Madeleine a scene from the history of St 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. On returning to Paris in 1828, Guérin, who had previously been made chevalier of the order of St. 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 La Trinité de Monti by the side of Claude Lorrain.

A heroic portrait by Guerin hangs in the

King Louis XVIII of France, it depicts the Descent from the Cross
.

Pupils

Many artists studied with Guérin, among them Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, Ary and Hendrik Scheffer.[1]

Selected paintings

References

  1. ^ Frédéric Chappey, Les Professeurs des Beaux-Arts (1794–1873), dans : Romantisme, 1996. N°93. p. 95–101.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Guérin, Pierre Narcisse, Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Further reading

External links

Media related to Pierre-Narcisse Guérin at Wikimedia Commons

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