Antoine-Claude Fleury

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

•  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.