Jean-François Pierre Peyron

A French Neoclassical Painter, Peyron (1744-1814) created an outstanding example of neo-classicism, realizing the ideals of antique beauty, high drama, and civic virtue that characterized Parisian art and culture on the eve of the French Revolution. A first version of his picture, a royal commission exhibited at the Salon of 1787, was eclipsed by the critical success of a ...