Naked Man. Canvas, oil Canvas dimensions: 95 x 68..

Naked Man. Canvas, oil

Canvas dimensions: 95 x 68.5 cm.
Dimensions with frame: 107 x 84 cm.
Among the many examples, there are interesting comparisons with figures that appear in the canvases ‘Sabines’ and ‘Leonidas at Thermopylae’, kept in the Louvre.
Along with Antonio Canova and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Engrand, he was one of the leading representatives of the neoclassical movement in European art between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Of petit-bourgeois origin, he was educated in the workshop of Joseph-Marie Vienne. In 1769, he won the third prize of the Prix de Rome.
Between 1775 and 1780 he resided in Rome, where he continued to study ancient sculpture and where he was fascinated by Renaissance and Baroque painting, particularly by
Raphael, so much so that his style is in a neoclassical vein.
A fervent revolutionary, he praises the deeds and actions of Napoleon in pictures. His art has gone down in history, and the school of David was already in use at the beginning of the nineteenth century, considering both his direct pupils and the artists in his circle, among them :
Jean-Germain Droit, Antoine-Jean Gros, François Gérard, Anne-Louis Giraudet, Jean-Baptiste Isabe, Jean-Pierre Franck, Jérôme-Martin Langlois, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Vicard.