Antoine jean gros biography of donald
Antoine Jean Gros was a neoclassical and pre-romantic painter.!
Antoine-Jean Gros, titled as Baron Gros in , was a French painter.
Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835)
For his own compositions Gros chose subjects such as Malvina Mourning Oscar, taken from Osssian, or Young Mourning his Daughter - themes which illustrate the pre-Romantic vogue.
His only finished paintings, however, are portraits, of which he painted a large number, mainly of members of Genoese society, including Portrait of Madame Pasteur (Louvre), the wife of a French banker.
At the end of 1796 Gros accompanied Josephine de Beauharnais, who had been staying in Genoa, to Milan where he painted his famous Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole (1796, Louvre).
He was appointed to the commission responsible for choosing works of art to be sent back to France, and travelled throughout Italy, visiting Rome in the spring of 1797.
Recognition in Paris
On his return to Paris in 1801 he exhibited his Sappho at Leucadia (Bayeux Museum), a painting which he had begun in Italy and which, with its theme of suicide, allied to the nocturnal gloom of th
