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Guillaume Guillon Lethière
(10th Jan, 1760 - 22nd Apr, 1832)
La Mort de Virginie
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Daniel Arnaudet / Christian Jean
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
époque de la République romaine (représentation)
scène antique romaine
louve romaine
Neo-classicism
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About the artwork
Title:
La Mort de Virginie
Periods:
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
19th century
XIXth century
Techniques:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
4580 x 7780
Inventory number:
INV6229
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Guillaume Guillon Lethière
Also known as:
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
Guillaume Guillon Lethiere
Born:
10th Jan, 1760
Dead:
22nd Apr, 1832
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
(10 January 1760 – 22 April 1832) was a French neoclassical painter. Born in Guadeloupe in 1760 to a French colonial official named Pierre Guillon and a disenfranchised "mulatto" mother, Lethière has been often written about in the context of French colonial history and the French Revolution. At 14 years old, he moved from Guadeloupe to Metropolitan France, and by 17 he had become the student of Gabriel François Doyen at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture…
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