Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Jean Antoine Théodore de Gudin - French 1802 - 1880


(detail)


Storm off the Coast of Belle-Ile


Aurora Borealis


Incendie du Kent

Baron de Gudin especially painted navy scenes, and was a pupil of Girodet-Trioson. He was official painter for the French Navy, at the court of Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III.

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