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Antoine-Claude Fleury

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Miniature portrait of General Baron Pierre Thouvenot
Portrait of cardinal Joseph Fesch, 1807

Antoine-Claude Fleury (1743-1822), a French historical and portrait painter, studied under Regnault, and exhibited at the Salon from 1795 to 1822. Amongst his works are:

  • The Abduction of Helen from the Temple of Diana. 1800.
  • Theseus going to fight the Minotaur. 1804.
  • The Doom of Orestes. 1806.
  • Venus and Adonis.
  • The Origin of Painting. 1808.
  • Cornelia and her Sons. 1810.
  • Miss Salisbury. 1812.
  • The Flight into Egypt. 1819.
  • The Widow's Mite. 1819.
  • Portrait of Louis XVIII. 1819.

References

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Fleury, Antoine Claude". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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