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1762 Poitiers - 1801 Livorno. Known for: Portrait painting.
Born in Poitiers in 1762, Louis Gauffier relocated at an early age to Paris, where he studied the style of Poussin under the tutelage of Hughes Taraval. When he was just twenty-two years old,... Read full biography
Born in Poitiers in 1762, Louis Gauffier relocated at an early age to Paris, where he studied the style of Poussin under the tutelage of Hughes Taraval. When he was just twenty-two years old, Gauffier won the Prix de Rome and entered the École des Beaux-Arts in the Italian capital. He would remain... Read full biography
Born in Poitiers in 1762, Louis Gauffier relocated at an early age to Paris, where he studied the style of Poussin under the tutelage of Hughes Taraval. When he was just twenty-two years old, Gauffier won the Prix de Rome and entered the École des Beaux-Arts in the Italian capital. He would remain in Italy for the rest of his career, save for a brief return to Paris in 1789 cut short by the outbreak of the Revolution. In 1793, Gauffier moved with his wife to Florence, where he joined a group of... Read full biography
Born in Poitiers in 1762, Louis Gauffier relocated at an early age to Paris, where he studied the style of Poussin under the tutelage of Hughes Taraval. When he was just twenty-two years old, Gauffier won the Prix de Rome and entered the École des Beaux-Arts in the Italian capital. He would remain in Italy for the rest of his career, save for a brief return to Paris in 1789 cut short by the outbreak of the Revolution. In 1793, Gauffier moved with his wife to Florence, where he joined a group of French emigré painters - including François-Xavier Fabre, who had been a close friend in Rome - and occupied himself as a society portraitist, painting mostly important military and diplomatic sitters stationed in Italy.... Read full biography
Born in Poitiers in 1762, Louis Gauffier relocated at an early age to Paris, where he studied the style of Poussin under the tutelage of Hughes Taraval. When he was just twenty-two years old, Gauffier won the Prix de Rome and entered the École des Beaux-Arts in the Italian capital. He would remain in Italy for the rest of his career, save for a brief return to Paris in 1789 cut short by the outbreak of the Revolution. In 1793, Gauffier moved with his wife to Florence, where he joined a group of French emigré painters - including François-Xavier Fabre, who had been a close friend in Rome - and occupied himself as a society portraitist, painting mostly important military and diplomatic sitters stationed in Italy.
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePortrait of Lourenço José Xavier de Lima, 1st Count of Mafra (1767?-1839), small full-length, in a red waistcoat and navy coat, wearing the decorations of the Order of Aviz, leaning against a pedestal with a sculpture of the Crouching Venus, in the campag
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