Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière (born January 10, 1760 in Sainte-Anne , Guadeloupe , † April 22, 1832 in Paris ) was a French painter .
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Guillaume was born the son of the French colonial officer Pierre Guillon. At the age of 14 he went to France and at the age of 17 he became a student of Gabriel François Doyen at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture . In 1784 he won second place at the Prix de Rome for his painting Woman of Canaan at the foot of Christ . Two years later he fought again for this award but did not win. Nevertheless, he received support for a trip to Rome, where he was able to develop his neoclassical style.
Guillaume stayed in Rome for several years before returning to Paris in 1791. He opened a painting studio in Paris in direct competition with the painter Jacques-Louis David . From 1807 to 1816 he was director of the Académie de France à Rome . In 1818 he was awarded membership in the Legion of Honor. In 1819 he became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Among his students were Isidore Pils , Théodore Rousseau , Louis Boulanger . Mélanie d'Hervilly , also a student and portrait painter, was also his foster daughter from 1815. She outlived him, unlike his own children. After Lethière died in 1832 during a cholera epidemic, she buried him next to her foster father Louis-Jérôme Gohier .
Works (selection)
The death of Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger , 1795, St. Petersburg Hermitage
Philoctetes on the island of Lemnos
The fatherland in danger
Miracles on the bridge of the Danube, November 14, 1805
Literature (selection)
- B. Foucart, G. Capy and G. Firent Laballe: Guillaume Guillon Lethière. Paris and Pointe-à-Pitre, 1991.
- Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby: Revolutionary Sons, White Fathers and Creole Difference: Guillaume Guillon Lethière's "Oath of the Ancestors" of 1822. In: Yale French Studies , 101 (2002): pp. 201-226.
- T. Oriol: Les Hommes Celebres de La Guadeloupe. Basse-Terre, 1935, pp. 39-47.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guillon-Lethière, Guillaume |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sainte-Anne , Guadeloupe |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1832 |
| Place of death | Paris |