Guillaume-François Colson

Entry of General Bonaparte into Alexandria, oil on canvas, 365 × 500 cm, ca. 1800, Versailles

Guillaume François Colson, a French historical painter, and pupil of David, was born in Paris in 1785, and died there in 1860.

Among other works, he painted the 'Entry of General Bonaparte into Alexandria,' which is at Versailles.

He also painted various family portraits and scenes of the upper classes in his idle moments, which could be seen as forerunners to artists such as Boudin and the Impressionists who were working decades later.

References

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