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Nicolas-André Monsiau

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had turned down the commission, preferring to continue his series of individual portraits of the Bonapartes. Monsiau received the commission in 1806; the finished painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1808 and was installed at the
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Louis XVI giving his instructions to La Pérouse, ship's captain for his voyage of exploration around the world, in the presence of the Marquis of Castries, Minister for the Navy, 29 June 1785
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His portrayal of a sensational episode in which an escaped lion from the Grand Ducal menagerie in Florence had dropped a child it had picked up, without harming it, was exhibited at the
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Even after his reception at the Académie, he continued to show finished drawings on historical subjects. Monsiau's pencil portrait drawings are less well-known: a
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Monsiau's great public commission was a commemoration of the occasion on 26 January 1802, at which Napoleon delivered an authoritarian constitution to the
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from 1776. On his return to Paris, he was unable to exhibit in the annual Paris salons, which were closed to all but those who had been received (
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Monsiau was among the first history painters to depict scenes from modern history that were not commemorations of battles. He showed
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before his attempted circumnavigation was exhibited at the Salon of 1817 and was purchased for the recently restored
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Ulysses, after returning to his palace and slaying Penelope's suitors, orders the women to remove the corpses
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Among his pupils was the portrait draughtsman Louis Letronne (1790–1842), whose pencil portrait of
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and a refined draughtsman who turned to book illustration to supplement his income when the
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and was made a member 3 October 1787, his second attempt, on the strength of
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Two years later he was received at the Académie with a historical subject,
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drawing style and coloring marked his conservative art in the age of
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Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs
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Aspasia Conversing with the Most Illustrious Men of Athens
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Zeuxis choosing among the most beautiful girls of Crotona
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Les Membres de la Consulta de la République Cisalpine
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Monsiau

Neoclassicism
history painter
French Revolution
Poussiniste
Neoclassicism
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
Jean-François Pierre Peyron
French Academy in Rome
Ancien Régime
tenebrist
Agis
Jacques-Louis David
Zeuxis
Pliny's Natural History
Cisalpine Republic
François Gérard
Tuileries
Molière
Tartuffe
Ninon de Lenclos
Jean-Louis Anselin
La Pérouse
Louis XVIII
Salon of 1801
Louvre
Ludwig van Beethoven
La Folie conduisant l'Amour aveugle, (1796), Paris
Aspasia Conversing with Socrates and Alcibiades (1801), Pushkin Museum.

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