Henri-Pierre Danloux was a highly successful French painter and draughtsman.

Danloux was born in Paris. Brought up by his architect uncle, he was apprenticed, in 1770, to Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié (1735-1784). Three years later he was admitted into the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809) with whom he travelled to Rome in 1775.

His Italian journeys - he also visited Naples, Palermo and Florence - provoked more of an interest in landscape and portrait craft than in antiquarian ruins prized by so many of his contemporaries. In his early period, Danloux specialized in the intimate genre scenes of his first mentor, Lépicié, as well as in the execution of small-scale portraits.

In 1783 Danloux retu...