Gros & Girodet. Chemins croisés. Beaux-arts The sum of research carried

The sum of research carried out on each of the pieces and articles signed by eminent specialists

The catalog presents a selection of works that allows us to follow the English painter's evolution step by step: from his conventional beginnings as a topographical landscape and architectural draughtsman

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an artistic tradition in an original conception of forms

Imbued with the "spirit of the Way

Gros & Girodet. Chemins croisés. Beaux-arts The sum of research carriedCelebrating the friend through the friend is the premise of this book, which explores what Gros's art shares with Girodet's. It presents the challenges of these two careers, which intertwined at the very beginning of the 19th century. Antoine Jean Gros (1771 1835) was the most faithful classmate and one of the best friends of Anne Louis Girodet, known as Girodet Trioson (1767 1824). The famous speech he improvised amidst tears at Girodet's grave has