Jean-Adrien Guignet (1816 – 1854) was a French orientalist painter.[1]
Guignet was born in Annecy and grew up in the city of Autun. He was a friend of Hippolyte Michaud. He was a rather popular orientalist painter in his time, and was especially commanded for his Egyptian scenes. He died in Paris.
Works
edit- Musée des beaux-arts de Beaune
- Soldat gaulois (circa 1854)
- Agar et Ismaël
- Cambise et Psamménite
- Épisode de la retraite des Dix-Mille (circa 1842)
- Joseph expliquant les rêves du pharaon
- Xerxes à l'Hellespont
- Autoportrait ("Self-portrait")
Gallery
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Joseph expliquant les rêves du pharaon, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen -
Retreat of the Ten Thousand, at the Battle of Cunaxa -
Xerxes at the Hellespont -
![Meeting Between Cambyses II and Psammetichus III after the Battle of Pelusium. Louvre Museum.[2]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Meeting_Between_Cambyses_II_and_Psammetichus_III.jpg/200px-Meeting_Between_Cambyses_II_and_Psammetichus_III.jpg)
![Meeting Between Cambyses II and Psammetichus III after the Battle of Pelusium. Louvre Museum.[2]](/wiki/File:Meeting_Between_Cambyses_II_and_Psammetichus_III.jpg)
References
edit- ^ Institute, Witt Library of the Courtauld (2014). Checklist of Painters from 1200-1994. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-26413-1.
- ^ Karamanides, Dimitra (15 December 2005). Pythagoras: Pioneering Mathematician and Musical Theorist of Ancient Greece. p. 32. ISBN 9781404205000.
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