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Harriet, Fulchran-Jean
(b Paris, 1776; d Rome, 1805). French painter and draughtsman. He began his career in 1793 by winning second prize in the Prix de Rome with an entry that was praised by his teacher, David, and by Prud’hon. He exhibited portraits and subjects taken from ancient history in the Salons between 1796 and 1802. Harriet took part in the ‘Pre-Romantic’ movement made famous by his fellow disciples of David, Pierre Guérin and Anne-Louis Girodet. Oedipus at Colonus (1798–9; priv. col., see 1974 exh. cat., no. 97) is typical of this development in Neo-classicism. Harriet combined precise drawing of draperies, strong effects of light and symbolically divided landscape (the arid section on the left prefigured Caspar David Friedrich) with static, symmetrical composition. At the same time he won the 1798 Prix de Rome with the Fight between the Horatii and the Curiatii (Paris, Ecole N. Sup. B.-A.). He went to Rome, probably in 1802, where he undertook a vast heroic composition, Horatius Cocles (untraced), which, according to his contemporaries Landon and Wicar, was a masterpiece, although it was still unfinished when he died.
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