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Pierre-Narcisse, Baron Guérin
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Born March 13, 1774 • Paris • France
Died July 16, 1833 (aged 59) • Rome • Italy
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome
Notable Works “Andromaque et Pyrrhus” • “Enée racontant à Didon les malheurs de la ville de Troie” • “Phèdre et Hippolyte” • “Return of Marcus Sextus”

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Coypel, Charles-Antoine: Painting Ejecting Thalia
Charles-Antoine Coypel
French artist
Gérôme, Jean-Léon: Ave Caesar! Morituri Te Salutant (Hail Caesar! We Who Are About to Die Salute You)
Jean-Léon Gérôme
French artist
André Lhote
French artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Self-portrait
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter
Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David
French painter
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French painter
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Charles-Antoine Coypel: Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida
Antoine Coypel
French artist
Anne-Louis Girodet
French painter
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
French painter
Henner, Jean-Jacques: Alsatian Girl
Jean-Jacques Henner
French painter
Pan Tianshou
Chinese artist
Lin Fengmian
Chinese artist
Woodruff, Hale
Hale Woodruff
American painter, draftsman, printer, and educator
Francesco Squarcione
Italian painter
Josef Albers, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1948.
Josef Albers
American painter
Robert Henri
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László Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian artist
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann
German painter
Francisco Pacheco
Spanish painter

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