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Jean-Sébastien ROUILLARD (Paris 1789 - 1852)
Marguerite de F…
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Jean-Sébastien ROUILLARD (Paris 1789 - 1852)
Marguerite de F…
See original version (French)
Estimate €8,000 - €12,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Jean-Sébastien ROUILLARD (Paris 1789 - 1852)
Marguerite de France (1553-1615) saving a prostrate during the
Saint Barthélémy massacre
On its original canvas
110 x 118.5 cm
Signed lower right Rouillard
Accidents and restorations
Provenance:
Rapps, Stockholm; Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowskis, 2013.
Jean-Sébastien Rouillard was a French painter born in Paris in 1789 and a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. Exhibiting at the Salon from 1817, he specialised in historical portraits and large-scale compositions inspired by national history.
He received numerous official commissions, notably for the Musée de l'Histoire de France at the Château de Versailles during the reign of Louis-Philippe I. His style, inherited from Davidian neoclassicism, combines precision of drawing, a taste for historical costume and a dramatic sense of staging.
Among the artist's works in public collections are the Portrait of Camille Desmoulins, kept at the Château de Versailles, and several portraits of marshals and generals of the First Empire painted for the Galeries historiques de Versailles. His historical compositions can also be compared with the great romantic scenes inspired by the Wars of Religion and the French Revolution, which were particularly popular in the first half of the 19th century.
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