Léon BENOUVILLE, The Wrath of Achilles [La colère d'Achille] 1847
Léon-François Bénouville's splendidly modelled figure of Achilles intrudes into the space of the viewer. He literally steps beyond the surface of the ...
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Audio guide to works from the NGA exhibition French Paintings from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 7 November 2003 – 15 February 2004
Nicolas POUSSIN, Venus and Adonis [Vénus et Adonis] c.1626
Nicolas Poussin is one of France’s greatest painters. Venus and Adonis is an important example of the mythologies he painted in Rome during the 1620s....
Simon VOUET, Allegory of Prudence [Allégorie de la Prudence] c.1645
Simon Vouet’s Allegory of Prudence is one of the Musée Fabre’s most significant paintings. It is remarkable as much for its formal bravado – its conto...
Jacques-Louis DAVID, Portrait of Alphonse Leroy [Portrait d’Alphonse Leroy] c.1783
Jacques-Louis David’s Portrait of Alphonse Leroy is widely recognised as among the painter’s greatest portraits. In its sobriety, its scientific atten...
Jean Louis DEMARNE, A Ferry and Boats on a Canal [Bac et barques sur un canal] c.1800-1815,
Jean-Louis Demarne’s career was not that of a powerful Academician. He was instead a painter who actively sought out and capitalised on the taste of m...
Sébastien BOURDON, The Lamentation [Déploration sur le Christ mort] c. 1665-1670
Due largely to the fact that he spent much of his adult life working outside of the country, and because of the very flexible nature of his work, whic...
Frédéric BAZILLE, The Ramparts, Aigues-Mortes [Les remparts d’Aigues-Mortes] 1867
Frédéric Bazille was a friend of Alfred Bruyas and became an important early member of the Impressionist movement in Paris, where he was associated wi...
Achille-Etna MICHALLON, Landscape with Philoctetes on the Island of Lemnos [Paysage avec Philoctète dans l’île de Lemnos] 1822
Achille-Etna Michallon was a highly ambitious prodigy, who first exhibited at the Salon at the age of fifteen. Michallon won the inaugural Grand Prix ...
Eugène ISABEY, Storm with a Shipwreck [La tempête, naufrage] 1835
Eugène Isabey was a deeply Romantic painter. His work during the 1820s and 1830s is characterised by a concern with the unpredictable nature of the el...
Paul GUIGOU, Provençal Landscape [Paysage provençal] 1869
Paul Guigou regularly painted the scenery of Provence in southern France, the region of his birth. This small landscape is typical of his work and cap...