Pierre Narcisse Guérin
Baron Pierre Narcisse Guérin (born March 13, 1774 in Paris , † July 16, 1833 in Rome ) was a French painter and lithographer .
life and work
Pierre Narcisse Guérin was Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault's pupil and first attracted attention with a depiction of the victim in front of Aesculap's statue based on Geßner's idyll (in the Louvre). His death of Catos of Utica (1797) earned him a prize. But his Marcus Sextus was even more admired, how he, Sulla's proscription escaped, finds his wife dead on his return and the daughters in tears at her feet, a picture full of the greatest pathos (1799).
On the other hand, his Hippolytus and Phaedra (1802), with whom he turned to stage performance, met with divided applause . After visiting Italy in 1802, he settled in Paris, where he carried out a number of larger works, including Napoleon, forgiving the rebels in Cairo , Andromache and Pyrrhus (1810), Aeneas , telling Dido his adventure (1813), (see picture) and Klytämnestra about to murder Agamemnon (1817, all three in the Louvre in Paris).
In 1822 he was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome and remained in that position until 1829. In 1833 he returned to Rome, where he died on July 16, 1833. His paintings, influenced by the Davidian direction, are characterized by technical mastery of treatment, correctness of drawing and effective lighting, with which Guérin opened a new direction. Théodore Géricault , Xavier Sigalon , Eugène Delacroix and Ary Scheffer emerged from his studio , although they are far removed from his kind.
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| SURNAME | Guérin, Pierre Narcisse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guérin, Pierre-Nacisse (Baron); Guérin, Pierre (Baron) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1833 |
| Place of death | Rome |