Charles Thévenin

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres : Portrait of Charles Thévenin, charcoal drawing, 1817

Charles Thévenin (* 12. July 1764 in Paris ; † 28. February 1838 ) was a French painter of Classicism .

Life

Charles Thévenin, son of the architect Jean Charles Thévenin, studied painting at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture , under the famous painter François-André Vincent . Thévenin traveled to Italy, where he won the Prix ​​de Rome in Rome in 1791 and studied at the Villa Medici . Back in France he taught at the Académie de France and in 1824 he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts .

Awards (selection)

  • 1789 Prix ​​de Rome ( Joseph and his brothers ; 2nd place)
  • 1791 Prix ​​de Rome ( Regulus , 1st place)

Works (selection)

literature

Web links

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