(b Paris, 16 March 1771; d Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, 25 June 1835). French painter. He was one of the most honoured and respected painters during the reigns of Emperor Napoleon I, King Louis XVIII and King Charles X. For these monarchs he executed large paintings of contemporary history and allegory, although he was also known as a painter of mythological subjects and of portraits in a Romantic vein.

• Gros, Antoine-Jean
  • Academy, §5: Academic ideals versus practical concerns
  • France, §III, 5(i): Painting & graphic arts, c 1814–c 1914: The search for a subject-matter
  • France, §III, 5(iii): Painting & graphic arts, c 1814–c 1914: Influence of the studios
  • France, §XII, 5: Patronage: 19th and 20th centuries
  • France, §XV, 6: Art education: The Ecole des Beaux-Arts and teaching studios in the 19th century
  • Indian subcontinent, §VII, 2(iv)(a): Kashmir wool shawls
  • collaboration
    • Mauzaisse, Jean-Baptiste
  • competitions
    • Prix de Rome
  • groups and movements
    • Orientalism, §1: Introduction
    • Paris, §VI, 3(i): Académie des Beaux-Arts: Foundation and institutional structure
    • Romanticism, §3(ii): Manifestations in art: Painting
    • Troubadour style
  • methods
    • Model, artist’s, §5: 18th century
  • paintings
    • military scenes
      • Paris, §III, 4: Art life and organization, 1789–1814
    • portraits
      • Bonaparte: (2) Josephine
  • patrons and collectors
    • Beisteguy y Benítez, Carlos de
      • Beisteguy y Benítez, Carlos de
    • Chéramy, Paul-Arthur
      • Chéramy, Paul-Arthur
    • Coutan, Louis-Joseph-Auguste
      • Coutan, Louis-Joseph-Auguste
    • Denon, (Dominique-)Vivant
      • Denon, Vivant
    • Forbin, (Louis Nicolas Philippe) Auguste, Comte de
      • Forbin, Auguste
    • His de La Salle, (Aimé-Charles-)Horace
      • His de la Salle, Horace
    • Louis XVIII, King of France (reg 1814-24)
      • Bourbon, §I: (13) Louis XVIII, King of France
    • Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (reg 1804-14)
      • Bonaparte: (1) Napoleon I, §2: Painting
    • Yusupov, Nikolay (Borisovich), Prince (1751-1831)
      • Yusupov: (1) Nikolay Yusupov
  • pupils
    • Barye, Antoine-Louis
      • Barye, Antoine-Louis, §1: Training and early work, to c 1830
    • Begas, Carl (Joseph) (i) (1794-1854)
      • Begas: (1) Carl Begas
    • Bellangé, (Joseph-Louis-)Hippolyte
      • Bellangé, Hippolyte
    • Bonington, Richard Parkes (1802-28)
      • Bonington, Richard Parkes
    • Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint
      • Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint
    • Courbet, (Jean-Désiré-)Gustave
      • Courbet, Gustave, §I, 1: Training and early works, to c 1849
    • Court, Joseph-Désiré
      • Court, Joseph-Désiré
    • Couture, Thomas
      • Couture, Thomas
    • Delaroche, Paul (Hippolyte)
      • Delaroche: (2) Paul Delaroche
    • Diday, François
      • Diday, François
    • Gechter, (Jean-François-)Théodore
      • Gechter, Théodore
    • Gudin, (Jean-Antoine-)Théodore
      • Gudin, Théodore
    • Healy, George Peter Alexander
      • Healy, George Peter Alexander
    • Hesse, Nicolas-Auguste
      • Hesse: (1) Nicolas-Auguste Hesse
    • Huet, Paul
      • Huet, Paul
    • Jollivet, Pierre-Jules
      • Jollivet, Pierre-Jules
    • Lami, Eugène(-Louis)
      • Lami, Eugène
    • Langlois, (Jean-)Charles
      • Langlois, Charles
    • Martinet, Louis
      • Martinet, Louis
    • Mazer, Carl Peter
      • Mazer, Carl Peter
    • Moine, Antoine-Marie
      • Moine, Antonin-Marie
    • Monnier, Henry (Bonaventure)
      • Monnier, Henry
    • Passavant, Johann David
      • Passavant, Johann David
    • Philipon, Charles
      • Philipon, Charles
    • Raffet, (Denis-)Auguste(-Marie)
      • Raffet, Auguste
    • Robert, (Louis) Léopold
      • Robert, Léopold
    • Robert-Fleury, Joseph Nicolas
      • Robert-Fleury: (1) Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
    • Roqueplan, Camille(-Joseph-Etienne)
      • Roqueplan, Camille
    • Rousseau, Philippe
      • Rousseau, Philippe
    • Schnetz, (Jean) Victor
      • Schnetz, Victor
    • Signol, Emile
      • Signol, Emile
    • Simonau, François
      • Simonau: (1) François Simonau
  • reproductions in tapestry
    • Gobelins, §2: Tapestry
  • reproductive prints by others
    • Jazet, Jean-Pierre-Marie
    • Longhi, Giuseppe
  • teachers
    • David, Jacques-Louis, §I, 3: Work during the Directory and the Empire, 1795–1814
  • works
    • Battle pictures and military scenes, §3(i): &circa: 1794–1914: Romanticism
    • Frame, §III, 9: France: Directoire and Empire
    • France, §III, 4(iii): Painting & graphic arts, c 1715–c 1814: Art of the Revolution & its aftermath
    • France, §XI, 1(v): Tapestry, after 1800
    • History painting, §II, 1: Neo-classical
    • Lithography, §II, 1(iii): Invention and incunabula, before c 1818: France
    • Master printers, §II: The influence of lithography
    • Paris, §V, 6(ii): Palais du Louvre: Post-medieval
    • Paris, §V, 9: Panthéon
    • Realism, §1: History, theory and critical reaction